Execution Quotes

• A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Practice, Phrases

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.317

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• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  Sue Grafton

  Sheep, Ideas, Goats

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Inspirational, Vision, Action

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Use, Maps

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• The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

  Chuck Martin

  Communication, Strategy, Results

  Chuck Martin (2005). “Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad”, p.12, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  William Blake

  Science, Genius, Chariots

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.643, Univ of California Press

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• Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

  Michael Dell

  Business, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Law, Severity

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• Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

  George Washington

  Men, Taught Us, Intervention

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.62

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• The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

  Frank Luntz

  Principles, Different, Explaining

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• Execution is everything.

  Jeff Bridges

  "Actor Jeff Bridges". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org.

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• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  Kate Millett

  Names, Firsts, Revolution

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.506, University of Illinois Press

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• Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

  William Blake

  Organization, Perfect, Invention

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.637, Univ of California Press

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• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Understanding, Musician, Roles

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

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• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Self, Fleeing, Defense

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• 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

  Men, People, Needs

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• 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

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Ideation without execution is delusion

  Robin Sharma

  Ideation, Delusion

  Twitter post from Sep 07, 2016

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