Quotes About Execution

The day en route to darkness. The guillotine on the way to the neck.

Executives execute. No one cares how many hours you spend at work and how many items you check off your to-do list. Execution and results are all that really matter in any business.

Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you're better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.

You could have a million ideas, but they're all worthless if you don't get them done.

Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you.

On August 11, 1520, Magellan carried out the sentence he had proclaimed for his nemesis, Juan de Cartagena

The first phase of the mutiny had gone off as planned.

he gave Molino a brutally simple choice: He could either be executed along with his master

His first instinct was to have both men executed; this was, after all, Cartagena's third attempt at mutiny

suspected that if he returned to Portugal he would be thrown into jail, tried for treason, and executed.

anyone revealing discoveries or plans for missions of exploration could be executed.

Thomas Appletree, who had fired the shot, was condemned to death by hanging

But English Protestants rebelled. "Bloody Mary" ordered the execution of the conspirators

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. It was as if she were standing outside herself, watching someone else do these things.

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

Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.

Well we got 'em, it was a pretty good plan. Could say it was the greatest pla-

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!

Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence.

The having originated a precaution which was already in course of execution, was a great relief to Miss Pross. The necessity of composing her appearance so that it should attract no special notice in the streets, was another relief. She looked at her watch, and it was twenty minutes past two. She had no time to lose, but must get ready at once.

Withers received these directions with becoming deference, and gave his guarantee for their execution; but when he withdrew a pace or two behind her, it appeared as if he couldn't help looking strangely at the Major, who couldn't help looking strangely at Mr. Dombey, who couldn't help looking strangely at Cleopatra, who couldn't help nodding her bonnet over one eye, and rattling her knife and fork upon her plate in using them, as if she were playing castanets.