Gretchen Rubin Quotes

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

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

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means you have too much time, and you should do a hobby - like collecting art.

Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into time you might be happier spending some other way.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.