Executing Quotes

• When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

  Colin Powell

  Loyalty, Mean, Thinking

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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Commitment, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Running, Talking, Decision

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• Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

  John Grisham

  Couple, Years, Guy

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

  George Washington

  Promise, Important, Purity

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.159

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• Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Civilization, Reform

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  Panayiotis Zavos

  Work, Ambition, People

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• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

  William Blake

  Judging, Criminals, Excuse

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

  Phil Simms

  Sports, Looks, Courses

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• Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Ideas

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• While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.

  R. Keith Sawyer

  Creativity, Ideas, Sparks

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Zero, Mistake, Men

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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• Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Offering, Voting

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.

  Laura Owens

  Struggle, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Fun, Writing, Dry Up

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• Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Self, Doe, Delay

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

  Ken Thompson

  Power, Data

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• About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Men, People

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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• People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

  Sam Messer

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

  Max Scherzer

  Games, Luck, Mixing

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• It's just about having faith in what I wrote and following through on the plan and making sure I get the pieces the way that I need them. It's just about executing properly in production and then in post, you know, it's working [with] and trusting my editor, and then also playing the film for people and seeing how they react.

  David Robert Mitchell

  Editors, People, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

  Clive Owen

  Animal, Essence, Discipline

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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