Execution quotes
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How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
-- Albert Camus -
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
-- Antonin Scalia -
The threat is stronger than the execution.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
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The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
-- Bill Drayton -
Education without execution is extinction
-- Bo Sanchez -
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
-- Bruce Lee -
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone of the dancer.
-- Carlo Blasis -
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It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
-- Casey Neistat -
The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.
-- Chuck Martin -
When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.
-- Constantin Stanislavski -
Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
-- Crawford Greenewalt -
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Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.
-- David Bayles -
The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
-- Derek Sivers -
I'm not interested until I see their execution.
-- Derek Sivers -
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.
-- Derek Sivers -
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
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 -
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 -
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.
-- Eric Burns -
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.
-- Eric Holder -
First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
-- Eva Hesse -
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
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Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
-- Felix Dennis -
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 -
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
-- Frans Johansson -
How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?
-- Gary Yourofsky -
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It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
-- George Edmund Street -
I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
-- George Stephenson -
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 -
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
-- George Washington -
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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 -
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
-- Hank Aaron -
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.
-- Harry A. Blackmun -
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
-- Helmut Jahn -
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution
-- Ian Mcewan -
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.
-- Jack Dorsey -
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
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Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
-- James Frey -
As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.
-- Jenny Han -
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The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.
-- Jerry Brown -
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
-- Joel Spolsky -
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.
-- Johann Peter Eckermann -
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.
-- John Dewey -
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So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.
-- Jon Gordon -
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.
-- Joseph Story -
New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.
-- Josh Lewsey -
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
-- Julius Streicher -
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
-- Kate Mulgrew -
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.
-- Kenneth E. Iverson -
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
-- Kinky Friedman -
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
-- Kinky Friedman -
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Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.
-- Laurel Lea -
Learn diligence before speedy execution.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
-- Lord Acton -
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
-- Lysander Spooner -
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Ideas are not important in China – execution is
-- Ma Huateng -
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
-- Maynard James Keenan -
The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
-- Michael Bergdahl -
Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
-- Michael Dell -
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
-- Pat Summitt -
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
-- Pete Cashmore -
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
-- Peter Drucker -
Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results
-- Peter Drucker -
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
-- Peter Jennings -
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.
-- Philip Alston -
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.
-- Ralph Nader -
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
-- Robert S. Kaplan -
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If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
-- Robert Sewell -
Ideation without execution is delusion
-- Robin Sharma -
Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea…
-- Sam Altman -
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.
-- Sergey Brin -
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There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.
-- Seth Godin -
As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.
-- Shane Carruth -
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
-- Sol LeWitt -
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
-- Stephen L. Carter -
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Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
-- Stephen Sondheim -
Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution
-- Stephen Sondheim -
The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.
-- Steve Ballmer -
Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.
-- Steve Blank -
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
-- Steve Earle -
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
-- Steve Jobs -
I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.
-- Terry Gou -
Vision without execution is delusion.
-- Thomas A. Edison -
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God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
-- Thomas Boston -
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 -
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
-- Tim Cook -
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You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
-- Tony Dungy -
Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
-- Tony Robbins -
Complexity is the enemy of execution!
-- Tony Robbins -
Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.
-- Tracy McGrady -
