Richard Branson Quotes

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.

I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.

If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.

I'm not one of those guys who walks around with a flip phone who doesn't want to be connected. There are times when I'm tech-friendly, and there are times when I personally do want to shut everything off because I'm more creative when I shut off.

I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.

We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

I will now be very mindful about it, and if I feel like I've been on my phone too much one day, I'm going to be more conscious of that and not be so obsessed.

I try not to spend too much time on my computer.