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Quotes About Inbox

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I'm a zero inbox guy.
~ Denis McDonough
Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.
~ Susan Maushart
My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world
~ Charles Stross
I am definitely a keep-it-clean type of person when it comes to e-mail. My 'important' folder on the Gmail app is constantly clean. When a new e-mail comes in to my important folder, I immediately look at it and determine what action item comes with it. The action item may not get done until later, but at least I know it's coming.
~ Leah Busque
I get more spam than anyone I know.
~ Bill Gates
I focus on a project in the morning before scanning my inbox so that I take control of my day instead of my inbox taking control of it. The
~ Lauren Berger
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
~ Gus Van Sant
Generally, what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I think that as you survey the challenges in your lives, it's just: Which of those did you assign yourself, and which of those are you doing to please someone else? Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone in the world can add an action item. I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Is your weekend really free if you find a crisis in the inbox Saturday morning that you can't address until Monday morning? Even if the inbox scan lasts 30 seconds, the preoccupation and forward projection for the subsequent 48 hours effectively deletes that experience from your life. You had time but you didn't have attention, so the time had no practical value.
~ Timothy Ferriss
In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
~ Davy Jones
I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
~ Al Yankovic
Vacations are good, and I come back energized, with the whiff of Hawaiian Tropic in the air and 2,000 messages in my Inbox.
~ Caterina Fake
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
You've got mail…
~ Debbie Macomber
I spend almost every morning with mail.
~ Seamus Heaney
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
~ Jordin Sparks
On bad days I have seventeen or twenty-four E-mail messages.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi