EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Most people do not see their words as power.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.

Rethink Your Mindset because...The view your brain builds and automatically adopts...of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create.

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.