Quotes About Follow-through

As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds," Roosevelt frequently charged.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

It was true that she was still not a follow-through person, but rather one of those often befuddled souls who seem paralyzed by the exorbitant weight of their own good intentions.

Ten Basics for Implementing Positive Discipline 1. Create a connection before a correction. 2. Get children involved: a. Offer acceptable choices. b. Provide opportunities to help. 3. Create routines. 4. Teach respect by being respectful. 5. Use your sense of humor. 6. Get into your child's world. 7. Follow through with kind and firm action: if you say it, mean it, and if you mean it, follow through.

Discipline with young children is mostly about deciding what you will do (and kindly and firmly following through) than with what you expect your child to do.

Pope sees that keeping people on the same page takes total follow-through. "We told the groups though our action," he explains, "that we're not hard-nosed and [it isn't that we] don't care about what they think. We proved to them they have a voice and we ought to listen to it. And we know that if we're really listening we ought to react.

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

Many software projects get software architects involved only in the design phase, then they move to other projects or the consultation contract ends. How can they ensure that their deliberate architectural decisions have been implemented correctly? Their decisions will be at best good intentions unless they follow-through with them.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Leaving something unfinished was nearly as bad as messing up the details.

A final, and critical, technique for implementing change is ensuring follow-through.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

But what has been begun must be carried through.'86

Words without action behind them are about as useful as an empty cup in the hands of a man dying of thirst.

delegation without follow-through is abdication.