Quotes About Execution

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Tu vida no la escribes con palabras. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único que importa es lo que haces.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. There

You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

And sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know. Kilvin

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless.

Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know.

The result was that the scheduled execution of one of the most abominable criminals of the age degenerated into the largest orgy the world had ever seen.

Back in the days when rulers actually said "off with their heads" it was customary to give the executioner a monetary gift so he would be sure to kill you with the first stroke of the blade. If he didn't, you were still alive but laying around, your head hanging partly chopped off. Not a fun way to spend the day, even the last day of the rest of your life. "The

I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-changed.

Robert had little patience with these introspective bouts of mine. He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

Most of the time, it seemed as if the piece was fully formed in his mind. He was not one for improvising. It was more a question of executing something he saw in a flash.

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not about art or ideas. It's about working at something and making it come out right.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Al Hallaj overreached himself when he said "I am the truth" - ie "I am God." By this he meant, no doubt, that theologically God was in all of us and that he felt one with God: "You have manifested yourself so much that it seems to me that there is only You in me!" But the orthodox viewed statements like these as the deepest heresy. Al Hallaj was put on trial in Baghdad, and executed after horrific public tortures.

and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

All of this is easier to say than to do.