Kelly Evans Quotes

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

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

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

I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.

I delete the Twitter app during the season.

In an odd way, it is refreshing to be around people who aren't attention-starved and media-addicted.

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

Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

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.

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 try to stay away from the Internet.

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

We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff - like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff - try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.

I like to get off my phone because when I sit with my phone, I don't feel creative cos I'm just sitting reading other people's things.

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

I stay off the Internet.

I by no means quit social media.

I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.