Notifications Quotes:

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Air, People, Emergencies, Controllers, Air Traffic Controller

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

- Melissa Bean

topic: Fighting, Effort, Identity, Consumer Protection, Financial Services

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

- James T. Walsh

topic: Sex, Children, Safety, Perpetrators, Offenders

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Mentally Tough, National Lampoon

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

- Koichi Tanaka

topic: Acceptance, Parent, Secret, Register, Notifications

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

- Eric Maisel

topic: Creativity, Giving, Mentally Tough, National Lampoon, Alcoholics Anonymous

One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.

- Kim Stolz

topic: Media, Drug, Substance, Notifications

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Vacation, Giving, Mental Toughness, Mentally Tough, National Lampoon

Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

- Kevin Drum

source: "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

topic: Fighting, Phones, Cells, Important Work, Notifications

I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

- Gordon Lightfoot

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Writing, Thinking, Years, Write Your Own, Orchestration

I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends." "It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always welcome at my and Cameron's house. Subject to a minimum of forty-eight hours prior notification.

- Julie James

source: Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.217, Penguin

topic: Moving, Thinking, Forty Eight, Moving In, Notifications

Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.

- Paul Ekman

source: Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Lying, Two, Giving, Concealment, Falsification