Execution Quotes - Page 3

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

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.

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.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

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

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

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Execution is everything.

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.

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

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

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.