Judith Martin
Poet
"Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me."
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Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance."
Roger Stone
Political Consultant
"I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear."
Ryan Holmes
Entrepreneur
"Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email."
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"Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence."
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"There's life and death in every email."
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"The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them."
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"I haven't been sorting through each and every aspect of this. Here's what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.' Mr. Wallace pressed further on the jeopardy angle, and Mr. Obama responded again: 'I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now what I've also said is that - and she has acknowledged - that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails...'""
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"With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States."
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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."
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"If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks."
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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."
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"I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart."
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"My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level."
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"Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations."
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"Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email."
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"The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?"
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"Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why."
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"That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out."
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"We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public."
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"The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book.""
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"I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer."
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"Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately."
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"I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling it that or calling it anything, not as part of the official curriculum. It's like an underground movement not yet officially recognized by the educational authorities - at least not as far as I know!"
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