Execution Quotes

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.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

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.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

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.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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.

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

Execution is everything.

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.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

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.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

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.

While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

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.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.