Quotes About Execution

There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and his team took Xerox's ideas, improved them, implemented them, and marketed them.

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.

Both assessments contain a lot of truth, but there is more to it than that. There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

Visions without execution are hallucinations.31

To succeed at any ambitious project, you had to assess all of the intricate ramifications of an action, weigh probabilities, share information, organize people, and more.

Some leaders push innovations by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both, relentlessly.

caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.

Genius starts individual brilliance. It requires singular vision. But executing it often entails working with others. Innovation is a team sport. Creativity is a collaborative endeavor.

He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest.

Yet, with a weakness of mind not uncommon to great criminals, he shrank from the thoughts of his own baseness and cruelty, and endeavored to banish the feeling of dishonor from his mind, by devolving the immediate execution of his villainy upon his subordinate agents.

Be a doer, not a wisher, hoper or critic.

The prayer for the vengeance of God is the prayer for the execution of his righteousness in the judgment of sin.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Don't campaign to bring back the gallows – campaign to bring back the saw. The medieval saw. Raise the prisoner by his feet and then saw through him vertically, starting at his arsecrack and ending at his scalp. Suspending him upside down ensures a constant supply of blood to his brain, so he'll remain conscious throughout and provide all manner of usefully lurid screams.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness.

It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

What a Business Strategy Should Do • Keep our focus on the customer, with an eye to the competition and the rest of the strategic environment • Provide our team with a continuing stream of options • Enable rapid switching between options • Encourage initiative at all levels—in particular, an execute-and-communicate ("shoot and scoot") mindset rather than one of ask-and-wait • Harmonize our efforts to achieve the future we have in mind.

He acquired a reputation for savage brutality unique even in that savage, brutal age, his most famous act being the simultaneous execution of thirty thousand captive enemy soldiers by impalement, i.e., a stake driven up through the anus and out the mouth. He was not a nice fellow.