Glenn Greenwald Quotes

Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

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.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

… a job of infinite stress

Panic is never productive.

My productivity is overwhelming!

Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite out of their day. We feel obliged to answer our emails, but it seems impossible to do so and get anything else done.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.