Execution Quotes

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

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

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

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

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

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

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.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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?

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

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

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

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

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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.

Execution is everything.

Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

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.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

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.

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

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

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

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.

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

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

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

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

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

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.