Execution Quotes
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
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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.
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Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.
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It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.
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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.
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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.
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
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Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
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Our effort was fantastic. Unfortunately, our execution wasn't that good.
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I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
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Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.
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It was execution, just doing the little things right in order to win.
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Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
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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.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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.
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Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
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Complexity is the enemy of execution!
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.
