Steve Huffman Quotes
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
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I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.
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The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.
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I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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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.
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My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
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The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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I don't get up and look at e-mail. I don't even know my e-mail address. I needed one just to have a computer put on. But I never, ever even thought of going to it. It's just not what I'm about. I just don't want to waste my life with it. It's just too much; I think people are just a little too absorbed in all of that.
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I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
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I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.
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I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.
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I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
