Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

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.

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

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

I hate that there'll be moments in my day and I'll be patting down my legs trying to find my phone. I hate how anxious it makes me feel when I don't have it. When I go on holiday, or I go back to Australia, I put my phone in my bag and I don't worry about it; I think differently and I feel less stressed.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

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

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 don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life.

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.