Quotes About Execution

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start."

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.