Execution Quotes - Page 20

• The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

  Derek Sivers

  Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

  "'Anything You Want': Ideas are just a multiplier of execution" by Derek Sivers, sivers.org. August 16, 2005.

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

  Felix Dennis

  Ideas, Doe, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.70, Penguin

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• First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

  Eva Hesse

  Ideas, Firsts, Easier

  Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

  Frans Johansson

  Innovation, Strings, Misguided

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• A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

  Michael Foot

  Eye, Mind, Fascination

  'Aneurin Bevan' (1962) vol. 1, ch. 13

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• Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

  Sol LeWitt

  Beautiful, Ideas

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  Calvin Miller

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press

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• It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Perfect, Toilets, Demand

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• The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Book, Adoption, Purpose

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.1, Harper Collins

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

  Philip Sidney

  Long, Use, Captains

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• Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.

  P.J. Wolfson

  Wedding, Wine, Beer

  "Fictional character: Reagan, the American Reporter". "Mad Love", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Sacred, Mystery

  George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

  Phil Donahue

  Doors, Rights, Important

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• Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part.

  Harmony Korine

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials is in the last use of your materials. The place to learn about your execution is in your execution. Put simply, your work is your guide: a complete, comprehensive, limitless reference book on your work.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.35, Image Continuum Press

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• When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

  Brett Ratner

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Strategy, Performances, Trajectory

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

  Stephen Covey

  Sometimes, Behavior, Poor

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).

  Joe Rogan

  Character, Writing, Laughing

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• Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Rams, Kingdoms

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• I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• 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.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Clients, Strategy, Ends

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• Begin and you're halfway there.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Halfway There, Innovation, Inquiry

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