Quotes About Output

Conley was not, as they say in recovery-speak, a "jackpot drinker," prone to big, messy binges that leave disasters in their wake. "It was more of a controlled, low-level draining of my energies and output," he says. "I could feel my songwriting falling off. I was just having a harder time finishing things, really getting a little stuck.

I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume.

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.

Adults in the West produce about 200 grams of feces a day—a little under half a pound, about 180 pounds a year, 14,000 pounds in a lifetime.

Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States.

From one point of view, all that a program ever does is to compute; that is, it takes some inputs and produces some output.

Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews have argued that one of the big problems with developing countries' governments is that they engage in what they term "isomorphic mimicry," that is, copying the outward forms of developed countries' governments, while being unable to reproduce the kinds of outputs, like education and health, that the latter achieve.

There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.

Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you may drop in yield until you build up the soil fertility - you need inputs for output.

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.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Desperation sends out the wrong messages, sends out the wrong vibrational output.

As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output of published material has been a bit under 3 million words, and over the past 30 years I've written about 15 million words of email, and altogether typed perhaps 50 million words—and in just the past couple of years I've spoken more than 10 million words on livestreams. And, yes, I'll train a bot from all of that.)

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.

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

by the end of the 1950s, output growth had become the overriding policy objective in industrial countries.

The idea of Solution was that if you asked questions and didn't keep mindlessly building widgets, your score would be lower, but you would find out you were working in a factory that supplied machine parts to the Third Reich. Once you had this information, you could potentially slow your output. You could make the bare number of parts required not to be detected by the Reich, or you could stop producing parts entirely.

int i = inputStream.read(readData); while (i != -1) { outputStream.write(readData, 0, i);

Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.