Quotes About Execution

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you're doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.

Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do it, and then it's hard to break them out of it.

We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you're giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Turning the ball over is something you don't want to do as a quarterback.

Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.

I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.

The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.