Quotes About Execution

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don't have a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind and understand and then execute, then you're going to be lost on the set.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

I always try to find the solution before I receive the ball. Afterwards, I have to control it and to pass it. But when you know before where you want to play then all the things went faster.

Successful entrepreneurs are pretty methodical about the problem they're trying to solve.

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.

So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, 'I want to start the next big thing,' and I say, 'Well, what are you solving?' And oftentimes they say, 'Oh, I'm not sure. I want to start something big.' You can never start something big without solving something small, right?

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

one learns to do by doing.

No matter how good the message may be, it will be useless unless it is done well (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Your achievement can be no greater than your PLANS are sound. That may seem to be an axiomatic statement, but it is true.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organised into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know." It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.

el conocimiento es poder". ¡No es nada de eso! El conocimiento es sólo un poder potencial. Se convierte en poder sólo cuando, y si está, organizado en planes definidos de acción, y dirigido a un fin determinado.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.