Quotes About Execution

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

Willing is not enough, we must do.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

In Coach Wooden's case, the term "drill" does indeed refer to making execution automatic, but it also means more. He designed lessons so that players could execute the fundamentals so well that they were able to, as the opportunity presented itself, take initiative and exercise imagination. "Drilling created a foundation," he likes to say, "on which individual initiative and imagination can flourish.

First, demonstrate what you want. Second, allow the person learning to imitate with the trainer coaching until perfect execution is achieved. Last, build repetition until it becomes second nature.

Superbosses suggest a very clear solution to this problem: protect the "why" of your business, but be prepared to constantly improve everything about the "how" of your business as if your life depended on it.

In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17

How can he eat at a time like this?" she asked Tubelight. The operative shrugged. "One time, Boss ate a chicken frankie after watching a hanging

He is in charge of the decision, I am in charge of the action.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

My customers come and go, cycle in and out. They eat others' foods, too. It's cool. They move on, and they come back. My quality, in food and execution, speaks for itself.