Top 100 Quotes About Execution
#1. Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
Rick Atkinson
#2. Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.
Hugh Laurie
#3. All the data in the world won't gloss over bad customer experience or poor campaign execution.
Dave Walters
#5. Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.
Laurel Lea
#6. I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.
Jeff Koons
#7. Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.
Ryan Lilly
#8. One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
Sam Altman
#9. We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#10. Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.
Robert Genn
#11. Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Stephen Covey
#12. Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
Lawrence Bossidy
#13. The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
Sam Altman
#14. What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it
Robin Sharma
#15. Waiting for one's execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.
Stefan Emunds
#16. In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.
Josh Trank
#17. I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them ...
John Constable
#18. If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Nicolas Chamfort
#19. A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.
Zach Klein
#20. Daring in design, cautious in execution - it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.
Ron Chernow
#21. All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.
John Connolly
#22. The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
Bobby Jones
#23. System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
George Washington
#24. [on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point ... storytelling momentum and relevance is.
Larry Brooks
#25. Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Lysander Spooner
#26. The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process ... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
Ban Ki-moon
#27. Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.
Elizabeth Winder
#28. This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
Antonin Scalia
#29. Moreover, although the people are guilty, Peter understands that it was precisely through the evil execution of Jesus that "God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer" (3:18). That is the supreme irony of all history.
D. A. Carson
#30. Not one person can afford your dream; the execution of it is too expensive.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#31. Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#32. Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
#33. And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to require it to resemble the viscous substance of truth.
Unsworth
#34. It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.
Alex Rodriguez
#35. It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner
#36. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
#37. Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE Self Execution, many have said that's a terrible name. I ask should killing yourself sound good?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#38. It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar
#39. I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.
Terry Gou
#40. We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.
Michel De Montaigne
#42. The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
Friedrich Schiller
#43. One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth
#44. Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.
Sam Altman
#45. Yes, my resolutions were remarkable in this, that they were no sooner formed than something always happened to prevent their execution. That
Samuel Beckett
#46. Without execution, ideas are simply illusions.
Ben Tolosa
#47. Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
Steven Sinofsky
#48. It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.
Desiree Akhavan
#49. You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.
Roustam Tariko
#50. Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power - it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
Anthony Robbins
#51. Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
Robert McNamara
#52. Education without execution is extinction
Bo Sanchez
#53. It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
Casey Neistat
#54. Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
Maynard James Keenan
#55. Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
William Blake
#56. I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Steve Ballmer
#57. Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
David Foster
#58. I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
George Stephenson
#59. With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination
Thomas A. Edison
#61. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
Michael Dell
#62. When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#63. After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution
Casey Stengel
#65. Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.
Monika Chiang
#66. Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
Pete Cashmore
#67. But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.
Franz Kafka
#68. History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
#69. One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.
Glenn T. Seaborg
#70. When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
Stephen Carter
#71. Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
Peter Diamandis
#72. Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#73. The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.
Roberto Assagioli
#74. An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
Joel Spolsky
#76. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
#77. Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.
Mark Zuckerberg
#78. Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst
Richard Paul Evans
#79. I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.
Stephen King
#80. It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
George Edmund Street
#81. We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.
Azim Premji
#82. Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.
Eric Thomas
#83. We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#84. To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Steve Jobs
#85. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
#86. In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee
#87. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky
#88. When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.
Cynthia Voigt
#89. There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.
Jose Saramago
#90. It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking
Anthony Trollope
#91. The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.
Herbert Marcuse
#92. As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#93. The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.
Robert Jordan
#95. There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else.
Christopher Hitchens
#96. The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
Thomas Jefferson
#97. No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
Thaddeus Stevens
#98. Knowledge is power, but execution trumps knowledge, so it's what you do from here that will matter.
Anthony Robbins
#99. People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene
#100. One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal - and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.
Jim Butcher
