Sherri Shepherd Quotes

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

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

I'm never on my phone, really.

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.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

The Tamagotchi, I have realized, is everything that is wrong with our smartphone era. Is this what went wrong with millennials?

Kids are so accustomed to technology that it's upsetting to watch them without their phones. They don't know what to do. Sometimes I feel like I'm like that, too - if I get my phone taken away because I'm grounded, I don't know what to do. So I just have to sit in my room and stare blankly at the ceiling.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

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.

If you're not careful, the Internet will gobble up your entire life.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.