Quotes About Execution

Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they're based on a detailed und­er­standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice.

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Business has the unique ability to make things happen fast and at scale.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

Don't think, just do.