Caroline Ghosn Quotes

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

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

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

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

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

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

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

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 get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

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 find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.

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

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

I'm trying to get to a point where I tell people, if you want to get in touch with me, please don't rely on email. I don't want to be a slave to it.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

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.

It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it 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.