Quotes About Execution

but, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.

I need to make the play. No more dropping the ball.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

We just gotta finish drives and be efficient on drives just so we can get touchdowns.

You just try to be as efficient as possible out there.

You can't emulate a game until you're in a game.

At the end of the day, it's not really about the aces, it's about getting the job done.

It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.

Getting the right script that will work at the BO and relate to the audience is what matters. You also need a great director to bring the script to the screen in a form you envisioned it to be.

I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.

Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Remember, my Jokers, a dropzone is like a woman. Land on her firmly, and make sure you have the vital parts located before you get going.' Hurtado Bronzi

Henry Ford said, "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."3

That's what real leadership is: Creating and clarifying the vision (the "what"), and giving that vision greater context and importance (the "why") for all Whos involved. Once the "what" and "why" have clearly been established, the specified "Who" or "Whos" have all they need to go about executing the "How." All the leader needs to do at that point is support and encourage the Who(s) through the process.

There is, biologically speaking, no substitute for attentive repetition. Nothing you can do—talking, thinking, reading, imagining—is more effective in building skill than executing the action, firing the impulse down the nerve fiber, fixing errors, honing the circuit.

Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they'll find a way to screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a good team, and they'll find a way to make it better.

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