Input Quotes

The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies… It is involved with everything. And I thought, ‘That’s where I want to be.’

A film is a director’s vision… there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn’t something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It’s a beautiful tribute.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor’s input.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it’s about mindset.

Intelligence inputs are not something one can talk about.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.

Vision I think is going to be an important input. Like, if you’re using Google Glass, it’s going to be able to look around and read all the text on signs and do background lookups on additional information and serve that. That will be pretty exciting.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

Interestingly, I’m more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I’m closed. I don’t want input. I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with this other person. But outside of that, I’m open. I’m everybody’s friend, unless they don’t like me.

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much – I don’t know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught – e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can’t manage without a helping hand.

I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I’ll always be a coach. I’m always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that’s something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better – basically, creating better solutions.

The first album, I’d had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn’t know what I was talking about.

Get the entire team involved in identifying and evaluating project risks. Everyone looks at the project differently, and sometimes the input from the student intern can be vital.

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We’d be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren’t for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

I can’t be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that’s what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that’s the kind of coach I want to be.

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you’ve got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

My creative energy and inputs have always been respected.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don’t necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Every day, every one of us sets the stage for our sentiment, our confidence, and our success by getting dressed. When you feel great, when you feel your best, it opens up a world of possibility. Feeling confident and self-assured are important inputs into good days, successful days, and happy days.

Ram Gopal Varma saw my pictures and called me for a meeting. He signed me on to play Vishnu Manchu’s wife in one of his movies. He did not give me dialogues, instead he asked, ‘What will you do if you were Vishnu’s wife and this is the scene?’ He explained the scene and I gave my inputs.

It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate and the consequences of certain policy decisions.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt in Bolivia and prevented a war between Ecuador and Colombia.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

It’s not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I’ve had into my own destiny over the years.

I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.

To have the canvas of something like an Impact Wrestling, something that had TV and be able to be a creative input guy and come up with stuff, I would love to, and I would be up for that challenge.

My years in the WWE, a lot of stuff came out that you’re not even aware of because they come out with it so fast, and there’s so much of it. It’s tough, certainly, to have any hands-on association with it, so I was happy to be able to have some input into the ‘Deuce Brand’ watch.

People think modeling’s mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.

A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.

I write every first draft – almost every draft, but certainly the first – by hand on blank white pieces of paper, so I don’t know how long it is as I’m writing; it just piles up, and then I input it all in my computer, and I learn how long it is.

Firstly, I’d say that A. R. Rahman sir is one of the biggest influences in my life. He’s given me some great numbers, and I’ve looked at him for inputs many a time with regards to my career.

There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don’t want them to have input. But that’s not with Marvel.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

PM Modi believes in detailed planning through extensive consultation. He is an example as a listener – no interruptions, no urgent phone calls, no distractions; he absorbs every input. He doesn’t hesitate to say he needs more inputs, another round of briefing, or more time to mull over.

Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.

Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

When you have too many people and you’re trying to satisfy everybody’s input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

It is neither feasible or advisable for us to reshore all supply chains; partnerships with our allies that promote more stable access to key inputs while improving environmental sustainability and workers’ rights is essential.

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

The actor should understand the script and come prepared to play the role. At the same time, they should be flexible enough to take the director’s input and portray his vision.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn’t enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

I’m mainly a dancer, but I’ve been offered to write songs on albums this year, and that’s really cool. I never thought I’d get to do that. It’s out of my comfort zone, but I loved having that input. It makes you feel more involved, when you have that creative control.

We’re working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

We have worked with a range of input approaches. We’ve worked with the range of mechanisms to drive immersion into the gaming experience.

I am completely a director’s actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

I’m a firm believer that if you are not on the team, you ought not have input on who the quarterback is going to be.

I’ll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can’t underestimate band chemistry.

If you see someone struggling, offer input. If someone comes to you with a question, don’t assume they should seek a higher up for the answer.

Survival is something I’ve always managed. To be fair, my parents did the first 16 years without any input from me. I ploughed through many a KitKat, but it was their insistence on vegetables and coats that kept me alive.

The UK has no input in Afrobeat. Let me make myself very clear. The UK has no influence in the creation or naming or anything that has to do with Afrobeat’ roots or beginnings.

I like all kinds of input.

As a coach I need to organise preparations for the team and give informed input to captain and the team to strategise better, inclusive of every player.

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients – with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.

If we don’t make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they’ll stop coming to Mexico. They’ll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn’t have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

I’m a visual person – when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

An audit of the courses our people are taking up, particularly younger and middle-aged Singaporeans must be reviewed every so often in consultation with input from the Industry Transformation Maps stakeholders so as to even as the best outcomes possible for our workers in the medium term.

People say 53 is too old to be a dad, but I dont think so. Its the input you have that counts, and youre more experienced and worldly-wise.

Hrithik is a great help to me while I compose the music for our films. He gives his inputs to us. He sits with me and learns a lot about music too. He is very fond of learning and very involved in the filmmaking process.

My wife is great at giving input for my projects. She’s good at naming places, she has pretty good taste in music, and as a model, of course, she’s excellent when it comes to lighting.

I don’t just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren’t doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.

As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the minute you start talking about numbers and statistics, they look over your shoulder to see whether you have a man backing you up or not.

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you’re firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else’s input on anything – a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk – is fantastic.

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio – pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.

Being on ‘Veep,’ it’s so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

TNA has been great as far as allowing me to have more input creatively on my character and the direction of my character and promos.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation’s problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a ‘root’ issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.

Kanye has this discursive way of working, getting input from a range of people, that I thought was really cool.

It’s very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

At least there’s a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.