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Output always equals input. -- James Van Fleet
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. -- Robert Smithson
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. -- Paul Gauguin
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. -- Bernard Baruch
I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book. -- Luis von Ahn
"You will accomplish a lot more with movement than you will with motivation." So MOVE. Create action. Make plans and stick to them. But above all: Cut Out The Input, And Begin The Output... -- Fernando Cruz
So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. -- Steve Ballmer
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. -- Freeman Dyson
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. -- Pat Metheny
Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future. -- Zig Ziglar
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife -- Confucius
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. -- Neil Postman
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. -- Robin S. Sharma
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. -- Raymond Chandler
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. -- Henry Mintzberg
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come. -- George Gershwin
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution. -- Frank Chodorov
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based. -- Thomas Piketty
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be. -- Warren Buffett
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty. -- John Hospers
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching-there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. -- Ansel Adams
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort. -- W. Edwards Deming
I can't keep up with Stephen King's output. -- Anne Rice
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output. -- A. R. Rahman
The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output. -- Arthur Laffer
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. -- Robin S. Sharma
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. -- Kanye West
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. -- Tom Hodgkinson
One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love. -- Rick Fox
A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis. -- Matthew Yglesias
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation. -- Janet Yellen
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' -- Nathan Myhrvold
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else. -- Aaron Tveit
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. -- Ben Bernanke
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. -- Martin Feldstein
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output. -- John Hoeven
So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. -- Talib Kweli
Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. -- David Cameron
When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output. -- Brian Eno
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
Activity is not output. -- Andy Grove
Strummer's Law: No input, no output. -- Joe Strummer
Through great input you get great output. -- RZA
Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant. -- Thom Yorke
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output. -- Michael Kirby
I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. -- Ann Patchett
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. -- Freeman Dyson
Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation. -- Braden Kelley
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. -- Thomas Piketty
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. -- Sam Vaknin
When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives. -- Zig Ziglar
A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work. -- James Galanos
Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output. -- Greg Perry
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. -- Christina Romer
Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output. -- Stuart Duncan
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time. -- Karl Urban
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output. -- A. R. Rahman
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization. -- Seth
I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output. -- Andrew Bird
It's not happening to you, it's happening through you. Check your thoughts and your energetic output for the answers. -- Sanjo Jendayi
Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith -- Sarah Slean
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input. -- Louis O. Kelso
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. -- Jenny Holzer
On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year. -- KT Tunstall
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output -- Richard Posner
Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense. -- Ted Sarandos
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. -- Rufus Wainwright
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be clichÃ© for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. -- Kanye West
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. -- Edmund Phelps
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence? -- Sri Aurobindo
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions. -- Fritz Sauckel
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output. -- Heather Brooke
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. -- M.I.A.
Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways. -- John Kao
The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. -- Christina Romer
Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.' -- Mona Charen
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. -- Charles Stross
With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team! -- Israelmore Ayivor
By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010. -- Rex Tillerson
In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs. -- Julia Gillard
I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact. -- Jimenez Lai
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment. -- Daniel Katz
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output. -- Larry Wall
The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want. -- John Kao
Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output. -- Ross Kemp
I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. -- Matt Mullenweg
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them. -- W. H. Auden
A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income -- John F. Kennedy
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation. -- Ben Bernanke
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. -- John Boyd Orr
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. -- Arthur Hailey
Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets. -- Ben Bernanke
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. -- Milton Friedman
I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression. -- Nick Carter
I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output. -- Lee â??Scratchâ? Perry
You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower. -- Bill Gates
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear. -- Frank Luntz
To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. -- Tom Robbins
Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line. -- Arie de Geus
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The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off. -- Earl Nightingale

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