Michelle Obama Quotes

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

I definitely find my time to be away from my phone because I think that's important, but when it comes to work and friends, I feel like everything is on my phone. I'll, like, leave my phone in my room for a few hours when I need my space.

The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.

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

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

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

If I'm on my phone and I'm feeling quite negative, maybe I need to not be on my phone so much.

I'm trying to get to a point where I tell people, if you want to get in touch with me, please don't rely on email. I don't want to be a slave to it.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

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.

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.

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 try to stay away from the Internet.

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

Even if you're meditating, practicing yoga, reading a book, or taking a bath - It's so important for our wellbeing to just take some time away from social media.

Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.

I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

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

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.

The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life. When you're on Twitter, you're not living, and if you're not living, you're not taking in stimuli with which you can create new material.

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.