Best 238 quotes in «execution quotes» category

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

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

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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.

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

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.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

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.

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.

[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.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

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.

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 principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

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.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

The threat is stronger than the execution.

The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle commissaries 25 were Jews, a proportion nearly similar to that in Russia. The most important of them formed a Directory of five: Bela Kun alias Kohn, Bela Vaga (Weiss), Joseph Pogany (Schwartz), Sigismond Kunfi (Kunstatter), and another. Other chiefs were Alpari and Szamuelly who directed the Red Terror, as well as the executions and tortures of the bourgeoisie.

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

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

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.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won't fly.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

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.

What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.