Execution Quotes - Page 22

• Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, Two, Enemy

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Burning, Gaps

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• As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Country, War

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• My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Believe, Ideas, Risk

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• Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Differences, Martyrdom, Whole

  Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Men, Eight

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Innovation, Intellectual, Needs

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• The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Analysis, Development

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• If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Angel, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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• Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

  Paul Blobel

  Men, Order, Squad

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 157, 1961.

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• I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck (Genickschussspezialisten). Each squad shot for about one hour and was then replaced. The persons who still had to be shot were assembled near the place of the execution, and were guarded by members of those squads, which at the moment did not take part in the executions.

  Paul Blobel

  Men, Squad, Use

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 157, 1961.

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• Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, History, Design

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.648, Modern Library

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• For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Frustration, Thinking, Levels

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• I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

  Rodney Brooks

  Ideas, Half, World

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• Ideas are not important in China – execution is

  Ma Huateng

  Ideas, Important, China

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• 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

  Giving Up, War, Order

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• After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Pain, Light

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• The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Winning

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• Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

  David Bayles

  Vision, Lessons, Should

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.15, Image Continuum Press

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• Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

  Stephen Sondheim

  Vision, Depends, Solutions

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

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• The threat is stronger than the execution.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Stronger, Threat

  Aron Nimzowitsch (2014). “Aron Nimzowitsch 1928-1935: Annotated Games & Essays”, p.272, New In Chess

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• The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Heart, Law, Guilt

  Gilles Deleuze (2008). “Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Courage, Believe, Oysters

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

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• Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Believe, Sea

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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Poor Planning

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