Execution Quotes - Page 24

• Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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• All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

  Bruce Willis

  Couple, Cameras, Directors

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• Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Relationship, Creativity, Journey

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

  Jan Koum

  Running, Circles, Ideas

  "We want a billion Indians on WhatsApp, says co-founder Jan Koum". Interview with Romit Guha, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 26, 2014.

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• A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.

  Zach Klein

  Commitment, Ideas, Impeccable

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• When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

  Scott Belsky

  Keys, Next Steps, Way

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• From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

  Loung Ung

  Country, Two, Population

  Loung Ung (2010). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

  Lord Acton

  Socialism, Accepting, Despotism

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• Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesn’t is because of execution—people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on execution—on the ability to get things done.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Football, Block, Play

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• But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Ambition, Mean

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.12

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• If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like
  prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There
  is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of
  this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we
  have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

  William Lane Craig

  Atheist, Mean, Men

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

  Azim Premji

  Strong, Believe, Focus

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• Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

  John Doerr

  Team, Winning, Ideas

  Post Seed Conference, vator.tv. January 5, 2016.

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• There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Christian, Kings

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• In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Hours, Produce

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

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• That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you." "I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Interesting, Tables

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• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Eye, Disrespect

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• Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fighting, Faces, Dignity

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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Business, Ideas, Creating

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Peace, Humanity, Generations

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

  Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

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• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  Carlo Blasis

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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• I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

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• There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Success, Men, Evil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1707, e-artnow

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