"Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results"
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"If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all."
"The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong."
"Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams."
"No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal."
"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."
"Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code."
"I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together."
"I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it."
"How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?"
"Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything."
"Focus on execution rather than just the idea."
"Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week."
"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."
"Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution."
"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance."
"We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison."
"Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others."
"System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy."