Carl Honore Quotes

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

Human beings needed to slow down. We had been living a life full of hustle.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

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

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Meditation has changed so many aspects of my health that when I don't do it, I feel awful.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

I find myself a much happier person when I turn off my computer and live my life.

We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.

'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a direction where we needed it. Our psychological space is being increasingly populated by data. And we expend an enormous amount of energy curating data.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

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

Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.