Execution Quote by Brent Scowcroft Download Open image “An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.” — Brent Scowcroft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Execution Failure Flawless Ideas Mistake
At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. — Luis Figo Copy Share Image
A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate. — Zach Klein Copy Share Image
Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous. — James Carville Copy Share Image
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures,… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market.… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image