Best 238 quotes in «execution quotes» category

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.

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.

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

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

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

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.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Begin and you're halfway there.

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

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.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.

Education without execution is extinction

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

Execution is the chariot of genius.

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.

Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

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.

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