James Nesbitt Quotes

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

I don't know if it's a consequence of 'Black Mirror,' but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

If you're feeling stressed or anxious and you don't know why, ask yourself: What little thing led me here? Recently, I canceled on a friend because I was tired. I went to bed feeling stressed out, and I realized, I feel bad because I canceled.

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

Time flies when you are anxious!

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.