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• Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

  Merlin Mann

  Made

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• 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 “Scratch” Perry

  Men, Miracle, Want

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• Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Mean, Offering

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• 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

  Organization, Energy, Environment

  Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

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• "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

  Life, Motivational, Moving

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Butterfly, Air

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Cutting, Reality, Ideas

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Data, Games

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

  Dennis Ritchie

  People, Point Break, Stressed

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• Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

  Joe Strummer

  Law, Output

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• Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

  Alan Blinder

  Democracy, Public Opinion, Politician

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Education, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

  Meg Cabot

  Writing, Editors, Effort

  Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• - Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

  Ian Doescher

  Feet, May, Golden

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• Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

  Dan Brown

  Body, Said, Humans

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• I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

  August Wilson

  Creativity, Thinking, Details

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• Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Self, Interaction With Others, Focus

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• The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

  Preston Manning

  Top Down, Doors, People

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Scary, One Day

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• We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Moving, Turkeys, Goal

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, February 10, 2010.

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• Output always equals input.

  James Van Fleet

  Action, Output

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.171, Penguin

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Styrofoam, Today, Cups

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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