Executing Quotes

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

Colin Powell

Loyalty, Mean, Thinking

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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Jack Welch

Dream, Commitment, Long

Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

John Grisham

Couple, Years, Guy

"Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Jean Baudrillard

Running, Talking, Decision

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In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

George Washington

Promise, Important, Purity

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.159

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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Rebecca West

Men, Civilization, Reform

Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

William Blake

Judging, Criminals, Excuse

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Panayiotis Zavos

Work, Ambition, People

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We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

Gregg Popovich

Basketball, Team, Believe

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Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

Phil Simms

Sports, Looks, Courses

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While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.

R. Keith Sawyer

Creativity, Ideas, Sparks

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Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

Jack Dorsey

Inspirational, Inspiring, Ideas

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Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

Rush Limbaugh

Zero, Mistake, Men

"A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Samuel Adams

Country, Offering, Voting

Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

Shoshin Nagamine

Years, Practice, Movement

Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

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In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them.

Sun Tzu

Strong, Two, Numbers

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Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Swings, Feelings, Balance

"Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

William O. Douglas

Spiritual, Twilight, Rights

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Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Steve Ballmer

Goal, Growth, Agility

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People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

Sam Messer

Believe, Ideas, People

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For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

Barack Obama

Self, People, Pro Life

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.

George Gascon

Mistake, Believe, Fighting

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Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

David Letterman

Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Brian Eno

Roles, Littles, Results

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