"Ideas without execution are hallucinations."
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"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."
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"Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering."
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"You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans."
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"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."
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"The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution."
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"The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them."
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"There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution."
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"Ideation without execution is delusion"
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"When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution."
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"Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions."
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"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."
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"It's not the dreaming, it's the doing."
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"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."
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"Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based."
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"Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?"
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"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."
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