Email Quotes

• I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Inspirational, Girl, Believe

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• Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

  Judith Martin

  Bother, Signing, Memos

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• Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

  Ryan Holmes

  Office, Might, Killers

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• Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

  Steve Toltz

  Buttons, Amen

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau

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• There's life and death in every email.

  Bill Gates

  Life And Death

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• There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Crazy, Creativity

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

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• If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Thinking, Water

  "Tom Ford: fashion's slickest control freak" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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• The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Writing, Technology

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• The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?

  Harry Hill

  Phones, Fax, Chains

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• The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?

  Tim Wu

  Years, Track, Mind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  Martin Parr

  Writing, Phones, Up Early

  "My space". Interview with Edward Mostyn, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

  Jess Walter

  Basketball, Morning, Coffee

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• Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.

  Chris Brogan

  People, Priorities, Up To You

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• I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.

  Sally Kohn

  Hair, Bangs, Doe

  "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules.

  Dana Perino

  Creating, Trying, Stories

  "Hillary Clinton, private email and more questions about character" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. March 03, 2015.

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• I meet with virtually everybody that comes down to Olympia, that Facebook messages me or emails me or calls me on the telephone. And, in particular, last year I was very proud to go speak before a group that I was invited to by a lesbian anarchist, I mean, my goodness gracious! I can listen and work with anybody.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.

  Sam Trammell

  Iphone, Brain, Junk

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• I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

  Penelope Cruz

  Iphone, Blackberries

  "Exclusive: Penelope Cruz Talks TWICE BORN, THE COUNSELOR, PIRATES 5 and Her Role in Pedro Almodovar’s I’M SO EXCITED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

  Constance Hale

  Communication, Simple, Clear

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• I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

  Jason Calacanis

  Fundraising, Entrepreneur, Products

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• Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

  Simon Sinek

  Phones, Entrepreneur, Phone Calls

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2011

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• There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

  Chellie Pingree

  Garden, Knitting, Phones

  "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

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• To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

  Pete McCarthy

  Phones, Creative, Advantage

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• Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

  Douglas Coupland

  Men, Long

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