Quotes About Execution

Playing may be easy, but playing the right way is not. ("Interpretations," A Cultural History of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders, (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 136.)

the infamous execution chamber—which was pretty small. Less than four yards by five. I found it incredible that up to twenty-two people were crowded into it for the shootings, half of them with guns blazing. I'm surprised many of the executioners weren't killed by ricochets.

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

Para que la obra más grande de todas se realice, un solo ingenio les basta a mil manos.

PENSAR ES FÁCIL. ACTUAR ES DIFÍCIL. ACTUAR COMO SE PIENSA ES LO MÁS DIFÍCIL DE TODO.

Act upon your ideas or they will stay in the invisible realm of your mind.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences; therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution...

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement it like a hell.

The boss would be present at the beginning of each session, laying out the rationale for the Work-Out. He or she would also commit to two things: to give an on-the-spot yes or no to 75 percent of the recommendations that came out of the session, and to resolve the remaining 25 percent within thirty days. The boss would then disappear until the end of the session, so as not to stifle open discussion, returning only at the end to make good on his or her promise.*

That's more easily said than done;

Y, claro, todo esto nos lleva a la pregunta de qué es exactamente la alineación. La respuesta es misión, comportamientos y consecuencias.

Forget the arduous, intellectualized number crunching and data grinding that gurus say you have to go through to get strategy right. Forget the scenario planning, yearlong studies, and hundred-plus-page reports. They're time-consuming and expensive, and you just don't need them. In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Look, anyone can manage for the short term—just keep squeezing the lemon. And anyone can manage for the long—just keep dreaming. You were made a leader because someone believed you could squeeze and dream at the same time.

I always follow 4E's wrapped in a 'P

Let a man start in business without having in his mind a perfectly formed plan to systematically pursue and he will be incoherent in his efforts and will fail in his business operations.

Persistence in developing that creativity will make you better at execution, better at idea generation, and more optimistic (simply because over time you will be more confident that you can always awaken it). Creativity becomes your loving friend instead of your enemy. And optimism, creativity, and persistence are all close siblings that want to play together as much as possible.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

You either read the book and use these ideas, or you shouldn't bother.

Some people will say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur." This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

the only thing that gets results is action. Not a single ounce of greatness in history ended with thoughts. It happened with hands. With actions.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!