Email Quotes - Page 3

• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

  Daniel Goleman

  Morning, Writing, Phones

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  Stephen Fry

  Phones, Want Something, Knowing

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• If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

  Al Franken

  Years, Somewhere Else, Want

  "Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

  Craig Ferguson

  Corporate

  "Craig Ferguson took The Late Late Show to Scotland (even though he used to get beat up there)". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2012.

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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, Marine, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

  Stephen Collins

  Giving, Heaven, Surfing

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• The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Communication

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

  Michael Moore

  Telephones, Assuming

  " Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Trying, Communicate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Together, Faces, Telephones

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• Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sleep, Waking, Hours

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• I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

  Chris Hardwick

  Morning, Digital, Busy

  "Diary of a self-help dropout: flirting with the 4-hour workweek" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  Felix Dennis

  Errors, People, Paper

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• If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Inspirational, Morning, Jobs

  "What I've Learned, By Skype's Niklas Zennstrom" by David Rowan, www.wired.com. November 06, 2010.

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• I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Assistants, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Cat, Long

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• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Three, Computer

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• Every study that's been done on email marketing has shown that increased frequency brings better results. If you're only emailing somebody once a month, they'll forget you.

  Ian Brodie

  Marketing, Done, Months

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

  Simon Sinek

  Perfect, Needs, Minutes

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Computer, Know How

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• Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Light, Yellow, Cameras

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