Huda Kattan Quotes

I take breaks from social media periodically because I think it is healthy to walk away and focus on the life that's in front of you instead of the life happening on your screen.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

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.

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

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

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

Turn off the TV, turn off the Internet, just go out, and I bet you your life will get better really quick.

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

We're in a digital age where it's cool to be on your iPhone all the time. All of out-of-school activities my daughter has such as piano one day and acting another day and dance another day are about getting her away from that. People are on video games and their phones, and it's taking up all their mental space.

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

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!

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'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.