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Catherine Price QUOTES

1 " The message is simple,” stated a strongly worded 2013 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine. “Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided. . . . Enough is enough. "

― Catherine Price , Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

2 " Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, Facebook users were spending a collective 39,757 years' worth of attention on the site, every single day. It's attention that we didn't spend on our families, or our friends, or ourselves. And just like time, once we've spent attention, we can never get it back.

This is a really big deal, because our attention is the most valuable thing we have. We experience only what we pay attention to. We remember only what we pay attention to. When we decide what to pay attention to in the moment, we are making a broader decision about how we want to spend our lives. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

3 " If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memories and damage our capacity for focus and deep thought, if you wanted to reduce empathy, encourage self-absorption, and redraw the lines of social etiquette, you'd likely end up with a smartphone. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

4 " If locusts are ravenous sociopaths, cicadas are more like frat boys - clumsy, loud, and obsessed with sex. "

― Catherine Price , 101 Places Not to See Before You Die

5 " In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

6 " Steve Jobs was right: smartphones really are different. They’re different in a lot of good ways, obviously. But smartphones also talk back at us. They nag us. They disturb us when we’re working. They demand our attention and reward us when we give it to them. Smartphones engage in disruptive behaviours that have traditionally been performed only by extremely annoying people. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

7 " Put this all together, and it makes sense that spending a lot of time on social media could be associated with depression and lower self-esteem. What doesn’t make sense is that we are deliberately choosing to relive the worst parts of middle school. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

8 " Thankfully, most supplements are usually not harmful, at least not in the short term. As Tod Cooperman, the president of a supplement testing company called ConsumerLab.com, put it to me, “In the vast majority of cases, people are just throwing their money out the window or hurting themselves over a long period of time.” But as the last part of his comment suggests, there are still reasons for concern over what’s in some of these products—especially given that in the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 50 percent of American adults reported using some sort of dietary supplement. "

― Catherine Price , Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

9 " But while it’s true that a healthy diet must include vitamins, vitamins themselves do not define a healthy diet. There are too many other important compounds in food. "

― Catherine Price , Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

10 " Breaking up with your phone means giving yourself the space, freedom, and tools necessary to create a new, long-term relationship with it, one that keeps what you love about your phone and gets rid of what you don’t. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

11 " Many people turn to supplements to boycott “big pharma”—but what about “big supplements”? "

― Catherine Price , Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

12 " We can’t control the fact that we will die. But we can control whether we actually live. We can control whether we merely endure our days or experience and enjoy them. We can control whether we arrive on our deathbeds feeling like we’ve wasted our time or end up satisfied with how we’ve spent our brief moment in the sun. "

― Catherine Price , The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

13 " The irony, of course, is that most people’s feeds do not accurately represent the proportion of their lives they actually spend skiing/surfing/sitting in hot tubs with models. Also, many people with enormous social media followings are actually paid to glamorize their lives. If someone’s existence looks too good to be true, it probably is. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

14 " Psychologists refer to unpredictable rewards as “intermittent reinforcements.” I call them “the reason we date jerks. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

15 " I’d argue that we can take this even further: if you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memories and damage our capacity for focus and deep thought, if you wanted to reduce empathy, encourage self-absorption, and redraw the lines of social etiquette, you’d likely end up with a smartphone. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

16 " Whenever you check for a new post on Instagram or whenever you go on the New York Times to see if there’s a new thing, it’s not even about the content. It’s just about seeing a new thing. You get addicted to that feeling. —Aziz Ansari "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

17 " The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

18 " the fact that so many tech executives limit their own kids’ exposure suggests that they don’t think the benefits always outweigh the risks – to the point that they feel the need to protect their families from the devices that they create. It’s the Silicon Valley version of the drug dealer’s adage: “Never get high on your own supply. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

19 " Multiple studies have associated the heavy use of smartphones (especially when used for social media) with negative effects on neuroticism, self-esteem, impulsivity, empathy, self-identity, and self-image, as well as with sleep problems, anxiety, stress, and depression. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

20 " I reached for my phone to soothe myself, but I often crossed the line from feeling soothed to going numb. "

― Catherine Price , How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life