Execution Quotes

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Enemy, Succeed, Until

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Great, Talent

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

Wise, Thought, Keep

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Powerful, Perception, Expression

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.
Francis Bacon

Business, Judge, Young

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky

Self, Precision, Constraint

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
Donald Rumsfeld

Work, True, Decisions

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

Successful, Throw, Pitcher

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen Covey

Life, Powerful, Forget

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

Politics, Wise, Political

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

Voyage, Maps, Indies

Execution is everything.
Jeff Bridges

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Liam Neeson

Life, Mind, Someone

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant

Bad, Laws, Effective

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Yo-Yo Ma

Learning, Put, Else

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Life, Today, Decision

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier

Beauty, Art, Care

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
Eddie Van Halen

Creative, Three, Process

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
Bryan Cranston

Down, Wrong, Show

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene

Men, Courage, Person

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

Place, Meditation, Implies

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu

Laws, Prevents, Severity

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

Religion, After, Empire

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

Death, United, Court

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Knute Rockne

Football, Deception, Based

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
Helmut Jahn

Attitude, American, Efficiency

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.
Niklas Zennstrom

Easy, Somebody, Likely

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
Brent Scowcroft

Mistakes, Idea, Full

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