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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

  Andy Stanley

  Coaching, May, Impossible

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.107, Multnomah

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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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• 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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• 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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• Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, Games, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

  Morgan Freeman

  Has Beens

  "Morgan Freeman - part three". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input.

  David J. Lieberman

  Decision, Advice, Should

  Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation”, p.155, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do.

  Trent Lott

  Jobs, Majority Leader, Decision

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• Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.

  Michael Jai White

  Actors, Able, Natural

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• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  Vince Clarke

  Long, Track, Keyboards

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• Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

  Stuart Townsend

  Actors, Want

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• Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Team, People

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Tools, Looks, Hey

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Law, Games, Peculiar

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• There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

  David Allen

  Interruptions

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• There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

  Woody Allen

  Would Be, Judgment, Rely

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