Quotes About Execution

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who's guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.

There is no difference between the way we see basketball; the way we execute is a little bit different. The way he uses his right shoulder, drop-step to his left hand, is a thing of beauty. There is no doubt in my mind that Pau will be a Hall of Famer because of what he brought to the game, and there's no such players like him anymore.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

Talent is not enough - it's about using it in the right way.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.

Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile's problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways.

The dead are on their way to work, grey limbs rubbing together in an open grave, stack on stack in the metal containers of car, tube and train. The grisly carriages are painted bright colors, guillotine colors of tumbril and blade, execution-bright. Each man and woman goes to their particular scaffold, kneels, and is killed day after day. Each collects their severed head and catches the train home. Some say that they enjoy their work.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

To live is not to breathe but to act.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.