Quotes About Output

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.

The gift of phrase was instantaneous in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.

produced eighteen thousand tanks, almost fifty thousand tank diesel engines, and more than seventeen million units of ammunition.

I'm not particularly prolific.

I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

I'm a firm believer in if you put it in, you're going to get it out.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Think of it this way: the input remains the same, so the output has to remain the same. How, then, can you ever create anything new?

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

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.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

Part-time effort means part-tim results.