Watching tv Quote by Jocelyn K. Glei

“Survey data collected in 2008 suggested that adults collectively watched 9.8 billion hours of television over the course of a year. In further studies…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“Australian adults, concluded that each hour spent watching television after the age of 25 reduces your life expectancy by nearly 22 minutes.”

— Ari Whitten

“For all of the information on the hazards of time on screen, research by Veerman and colleagues (2012) might be the most metric.  They…

— Joyce Shaffer

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

— Stephen Covey

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…

— Jack Canfield

“Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's…

— Gretchen Reynolds

“Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the TV—20…

— John Medina

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not one of these people who says, 'I don't watch TV much.' Or looks down their nose at TV and they watch it…

— Vincent Bugliosi

“Americans have become passive and lazy. We are like ancient Romans who live to be entertained. And in our lust for entertainment, we are…

— Doug Philips

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on…

— Henri Nouwen

Actually, it is precisely in overworked countries like Japan, England and the US that people watch an absurd amount of television. Up to four…

— Rutger Bregman