Gates McFadden Quotes

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.

I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.

I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don't even know why. It wasn't my school's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. I just didn't like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn't even doing YouTube yet, mind you.

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.