Quotes About Execution

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Un plan prost executat la timp este mai bun decât un plan genial pus în practic? prea târziu.

It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.

I never answer that question until after I've done it.

He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Think of many things. Do one. — Portuguese saying

So many decisions are destroyed by people's discussion on problems about the implementation. He worked always on the basis of let's get the principle agreed first and then farm out the implementation to somebody else.

One should nevertheless not fall into the old stereotype of an organization that kept its place in Spanish society by sheer terror. Certainly the Inquisition used torture and executed some of its victims, but so did nearly all legal systems in Europe at the time, and it is possible to argue that the Spanish Inquisition was less bloodthirsty than most – as we will see, it showed a healthy scepticism about witches and put a stop to witch-persecution where it could

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

I prefer trying over talking.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial.

Attainder was medieval England's great disincentive to treason. It was seen by many as a punishment equally dire as execution. As well as condemning the individual to a traitor's death, it condemned his bloodline to ruin by declaring all titles, property and estate held at the time of the treason forfeit to the crown. The

Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation. 4. Get the mappings right. 5. Exploit the power of constraints. 6. Design for error. 7. When all else fails, standardize.

original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.

a whole lot of ideas isn't a plan. A plan is a bunch of details that mesh with one another, so you go from this step to this step like crossing a stream on a lot of little boulders sticking out, and never fall in. Ideas without a plan is usually just enough boulders to get you into the deep part of the stream, and no way to get back.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.