Quotes About Execution

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

sólo los burócratas pueden pensar que el trabajo de planificación acaba con la creación del plan. La elaboración del plan es solamente el principio. El rumbo verdadero del plan se desarrolla solamente después de haberlo elaborado».

He did a terrible thing and eliminating him would have left the world tidier. Or so goes the logic of the last fifty years of American justice. We throw away flawed people, people who have made terrible mistakes, with regularity and great alacrity. We jail drug dealers for decades, and we execute killers. We want them away. Out of sight.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what "done" means (outcome) and (2) what "doing" looks like (action).

Lots of people have been making lists for years but have never found the procedure to be particularly effective.

What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. —Peter F. Drucker

Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes and requisite next actions is something few people feel they have to do (until they have to). But in truth, it is the most effective means available for making wishes a reality.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it 'done.

Your mind goes through five steps to accomplish virtually any task: 1 | Defining purpose and principles 2 | Outcome visioning 3 | Brainstorming 4 | Organizing 5 | Identifying next actions

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In

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next actions. Those ideas fall into the broad category of "project support materials," and may be anything from a notion about something you might want to do on your next vacation

Instead, the key to managing all of your stuff is managing your actions.

More goals may not be necessary for you now—you need comfort with the ones you've already put in motion, and the confidence that you can execute elegantly on any new ones.

Talk does not cook rice. —Chinese proverb

Your mind goes through five steps to accomplish virtually any task: 1  |  Defining purpose and principles 2 | Outcome visioning 3 | Brainstorming 4 | Organizing 5 | Identifying next actions