Patti LaBelle Quotes

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if I'm on Facebook, it changes my relation to the real world in a way that makes me feel sick - almost like I've had too much sugar or something.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

I want to be able to leave my phone at home.

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.

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

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

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

We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.

I'm not on any social media. I'm a bit analog when it comes to the Internet and technology.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.