George Stephenson Quotes
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.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
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These beautiful plans, we have to forget.
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Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
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The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
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The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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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.
