Execution Quotes

388 quotes by 321 authors

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be… — Joseph Story
[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law… — Mark Twain
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne
I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by recognizing and realizing… — Vincent de Paul
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. — Kevin Ashton
So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution. — Jon Gordon
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex… — E L Doctorow
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. — Reid Hoffman
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win. — John Doerr
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. — George Edmund Street
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly,… — Leon Trotsky
My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution… — Camille
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do… — Brian Kernighan
Ideas without execution are hallucinations. — Thomas A. Edison
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution. — Tom Clancy
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It's the execution that matters, never the idea. — Casey Neistat

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