Top 25 Execution Quotes of 190

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

Execution, Born, Feels

"Full Transcript: Gary Yourofsky on Animal Rights and Veganism at Georgia Tech 2010 (Q&A Included)". singjupost.com. 2010.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Casey Neistat

Ideas, Matter, 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.

Lev S. Vygotsky

Children, Execution, Overcoming

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Peter Drucker

Art, Execution, Strategy

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Bill Gates

Vision, Execution, Daydreaming

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Marlon Brando

Brother, Executioners, Keepers

Marlon Brando's speech written for the Academy Awards, as it appeared in the New York Times, March 30, 1973.

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

Carl von Clausewitz

Perseverance, Execution, Determined

Carl von Clausewitz (1987). “Roots of Strategy: 3 Military Classics”, p.373, Stackpole Books

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

William Hamilton Maxwell

Execution, Witness, Billing

William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

Jon Gordon

Differences, Execution, Belief

Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison

Positive, Vision, Execution

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Antonin Scalia

Pain, Causes, Execution

"Lethal Injection Revisited" by Christopher Brauchli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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.

Frank Luntz

Principles, Different, Execution

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Leonardo da Vinci

Execution, Diligence, Application

Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Robert Sewell

Java, Garbage, Execution

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

Lu Xun

Government, Tyrants, Execution

The threat is stronger than the execution.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Stronger, Execution, Threat

Aron Nimzowitsch (2014). “Aron Nimzowitsch 1928-1935: Annotated Games & Essays”, p.272, New In Chess

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Vladimir Lenin

Revolution, Execution

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Pat Summitt

Winning, Coaching, Execution

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

George Meade

Hearing, Execution, Has Beens

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

Inspirational, Vision, Execution

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

Eva Hesse

Ideas, Firsts, Execution

Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Mastery, Execution

Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.65, Simon and Schuster