Quotes About Execution

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts into the movie that they are actually making.

I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn't always time, even if it's sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

It's hard as a striker. It's cut and dried. Your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.

A lot of my goals have been one-touch finishes so it's about getting in the right areas and being the man to put them in the back of the net.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

There's no doubt in my mind. I think defensively, the number one thing is knowing the job and to compete.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.

In simple terms, John 13:18-19 records Jesus as telling them about the betrayal that is about to occur. He wants them to know about the event beforehand, so that when the betrayal occurs, they will realize that Jesus predicted that betrayal in his capacity of being God incarnate, using his sovereign omniscience and omnipotence to superintend the events of his own execution.

I've known fantastic writers who never finished a project. And writers who launched incredible ideas, then never fully executed them.

To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.

As such, while senior managers may think they're making the resource allocation decisions, many of the really critical resource allocation decisions have actually been made long before senior management gets involved: Middle managers have made their decisions about which projects they'll back and carry to senior management—and which they will allow to languish.

The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.

The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution. This is an important point to understand, because managers who believe they know a market's future will plan and invest very differently from those who recognize the uncertainties of a developing market.

Rita G. McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan, "Discovery-Driven Planning," Harvard Business Review, July–August, 1995, 4–12.

Allocation Resources Among Your "Businesses" In the words of Andy Grove: "To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

psychiatry there is a certain condition known as "delusion of reprieve." The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. We, too, clung to shreds of hope and believed to the last moment that it would not be so bad. Just the sight of the red cheeks and round faces of those prisoners was a great encouragement.