Execution Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Winning, Self, Break Through

  "I jest you not: how David Foster Wallace changed my life" by Matthew Hammett Knott, www.indiewire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Trump

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• Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Team, Organization

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• There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

  Bryan Cranston

  Numbers, Marketing, Elements

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

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• A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

  Jon Meacham

  Wise, Real, Political

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• 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

  Men, Law, Peers

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.27, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Truth, Business, Mean

  "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  Felix Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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• How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Born, Feels, Ifs

  "Full Transcript: Gary Yourofsky on Animal Rights and Veganism at Georgia Tech 2010 (Q&A Included)". singjupost.com. 2010.

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• Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Punishment, Unnecessary, Barbaric

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

  Russ Feingold

  Government, Years, Lasts

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• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  Auberon Waugh

  Long, Evil, Trying

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• I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

  Albert Einstein

  Errors, Justice, Events

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Friday morning, Kylie, Miranda, and Della, each carting suitcases, walked the trail to meet up with their parents. They walked slowly, like condemned prisoners moving to their executions. “I’m going to be peeing on a drug test stick every hour,” Della muttered. Miranda sighed. “I’m going to screw up at my competition and my mom is going to give me up for adoption.” “I’m going to a ghost hunt,” Kylie added. Both girls looked at her. “Don’t ask.

  C.C. Hunter

  Girl, Mom, Friday

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• 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

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.319, Wordsworth Editions

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• Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

  Ian Mcewan

  Ideas, Chasms, Lays

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a promise.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Order, Promise, Together

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.409, MIRA

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• Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

  Rachel Vincent

  Differences, Justice, Would Be

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.76, Harlequin

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• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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• If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

  Carl Sagan

  Biblical, Design, Competition

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Ideas, People, Admirer

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Common Sense, Finding Yourself

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Girl, Motivated, Warrants

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.” Like a stage?” Evanlyn suggested. “Maybe they’re planning to put on a play?” Or an execution,” Horace said.

  John Flanagan

  Running, Squares, Play

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