Execution Quotes - Page 18

• Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Shows, Conception

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

  John Locke

  Self, Stupidity, Attention

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

  John Locke

  Hands, Law, Temptation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.313

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• There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

  Alan Clark

  Senior, Party, Political

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• Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, Design, Worthless

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• There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  Francis Bacon

  Blind, Danger, Council

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• A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.

  Noah Webster

  Military, Law, People

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• Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Play, Vision

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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• Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Commitment, People, Focus

  "CEO Forum: AmEx chief talks about credit's future". CEO Forum at Cornell University with AmEx's Chenault, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 9, 2008.

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• When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Distance, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, People, Agents

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like going to sleep, and they're not. They're brutal things.

  Alex Kozinski

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

  Jim Yong Kim

  Goal, Care, Sometimes

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Quality, Typical

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• I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

  T.I.

  Opportunity, Skills, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Approval, Retribution, Rationale

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• It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  True Friend, Sacrifice, Rights

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• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

  Albert Camus

  Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Arms

  Letter to G. F. Fyodorov, August 09, 1918. "Collected Works", Volume 35,

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• What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Communication, Government, Law

  "The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"".

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• I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

  Paul Arden

  Ideas, Watches, Tvs

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