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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. -- John Grisham
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. -- William Blake
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. -- Ken Thompson
Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good. -- Phil Simms
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. -- Ivan Chermayeff
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. -- Charles Krauthammer
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. -- Wang Jianlin
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. -- Jack Welch
Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents. -- Heinrich Zimmer
When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss. -- Brad Goreski
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil. -- Ryan Holmes
We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually -- Gregg Popovich
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. -- John Paul Stevens
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. -- George Washington
Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution. -- Shashi Tharoor
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan! -- Nancy Lublin
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. -- Ulysses S. Grant
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The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. -- Vint Cerf
My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently. -- Uday Kotak
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. -- Johan Santana
Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do. -- Tamara Tunie
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. -- Samuel Adams
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe. -- Evan Spiegel
Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses. -- John Varvatos
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. -- Rebecca West
Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple. -- Ben Horowitz
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works -- Martin Fowler
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. -- Wendy O. Williams
Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. -- Jean Baudrillard
A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected. -- Laurieann Gibson
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. -- Colin Powell
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. -- Wynton Marsalis
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. -- Panayiotis Zavos
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results -- Brian Eno
You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together. -- Andre Agassi
Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they function, and that is an aspect of systems biology; but it isn't. It's the networks that really capture and store and transmit and integrate and modulate and finally end up executing the biological information as it is. -- Leroy Hood
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better. -- Vladimir Lenin
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. -- Hugh Blair
Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value. -- Sam Altman
The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip. -- Jack Goldstein
[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. -- Barack Obama
Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well. -- Sam Altman
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all. -- Peter Drucker
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. -- Pietro Aretino
People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it. -- Sam Messer
Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing. -- Tony Robbins
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea. -- Jack Dorsey
Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too. -- Paige VanZant
Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement. -- Shoshin Nagamine
While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks. -- R. Keith Sawyer
Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends. -- David Letterman
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy. -- Steve Ballmer
Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle. -- Steve Ballmer
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another. -- William Hazlitt
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. -- Adolf Hitler
I think the people who go to work every day don't feel like Washington cares a whit about them,and, actually, they're executing policies that are bad for them. -- Jeff Sessions
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music. -- Natalia Makarova
The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best. -- Tony Robbins
Just executing better. Getting into plays that help the offense as a whole, knowing our assignments better and just starting off stronger as you know we've struggled to do at times. -- Vadal Alexander
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth. -- Barack Obama
Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you. -- Stephen Covey
I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game. -- Max Scherzer

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