Noreena Hertz Quotes

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

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.

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 don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.

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

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.

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.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

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

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.

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

I try to stay away from the Internet.

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.

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

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

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

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

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

'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a direction where we needed it. Our psychological space is being increasingly populated by data. And we expend an enormous amount of energy curating data.