Quotes About Execution

Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.

You have a little more time to make moves when you're in the slot.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Work smart. Get things done.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.

It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

Sometimes people take the approach that the play starts when the ball is snapped and kind of ends when you catch the ball, but for us... there's a new play that starts as soon as you catch that ball.

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

When you have 16 or 17 attempts, when you have so many opportunities to score in the first 60 or 70 minutes and you don't do it, the opponent can score. The opponent can hurt you.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

There's so many people involved in making a film.