Checking Email Quotes

#1. Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.

Meghan Daum

#2. I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. Most people start the day by checking email, texts, and social media. And most people struggle to be successful. It's not a coincidence.

Hal Elrod

#4. Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the signs of our times as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world.

Namsoon Kang

#5. My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

Harlan Coben

#6. The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Walter Bagehot

#7. 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

#8. Peace imposible,war improbable.

Raymond Aron

#9. No one ever got rich checking their email more often.

Noah Kagan

#10. The dead in Nigeria are always waking up. When somebody dies there, they only seem to die for a little while,

Precious Williams

#11. The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing ... should be taught to every child just as writing is.

John Ruskin

#12. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Tom Hodgkinson

#13. All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

Ayn Rand

#14. What are you doing?" He flops down next to me. "Checking your email?
St. Clair snorts. "Give the lad a medal for his brilliant skills in detection.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

James A. Champy

#16. I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

Roger Maris

#17. An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul. My

Jenny Offill

#18. I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

Lee Child

#19. My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.

Ed Wood

#20. Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

Arianna Huffington

#21. I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Julie Andrews

#22. The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Guillermo Del Toro

#23. I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler.
Cigars.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#24. Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Thomas Wilson

#26. I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

John Battelle