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Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. -- Michael Dell
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. -- Sue Grafton
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. -- Ansel Adams
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. -- Christopher Columbus
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game. -- Russel Honore
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. -- Chanakya
Execution is everything. -- Jeff Bridges
Execution is the chariot of genius. -- William Blake
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. -- Scott Adams
Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped. -- Eric Thomas
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary. -- Kate Mulgrew
Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Execution is the job of the business leader. -- Lawrence Bossidy
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!) -- Tom Peters
Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week. -- Tony Robbins
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. -- Pete Cashmore
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win. -- John Doerr
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. -- Steve Jobs
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability. -- Lawrence Bossidy
Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results. -- Lawrence Bossidy
One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key. -- Ben Keighran
Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done. -- Sam Altman
Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice. -- Rachel Vincent
Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week. -- Tony Robbins
Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place. -- Rick Remender
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. -- Dustin Hoffman
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. -- Stephen Carter
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. -- Theophile Gautier
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes. -- Brent Scowcroft
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. -- Peter Jennings
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. -- Jack Kevorkian
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. -- Adoniram Judson
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. -- Igor Stravinsky
Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment. -- Kenneth Chenault
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release. -- Eddie Van Halen
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. -- Francis Bacon
The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. -- Michael Bergdahl
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. -- Frank Luntz
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. -- Jay Leno
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. -- Joseph Story
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. -- Paul Rand
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet. -- Brad D. Smith
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. -- Catherine Crier
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. -- John Ruskin
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. -- Naveen Jain
I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution. -- Felix Dennis
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. -- Julius Streicher
Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it. -- Trent Dilfer
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government. -- Alexander Hamilton
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. -- Paul Klee
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world. -- Steven Van Zandt
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. -- Barbara Hepworth
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. -- Benjamin Franklin
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. -- Sania Mirza
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. -- John Green
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being. -- Steve Earle
Education without execution is extinction -- Bo Sanchez
Ideas without execution are hallucinations. -- Thomas A. Edison
Information without execution is poverty. -- Tony Robbins
Ideation without execution is delusion -- Robin Sharma
Vision without execution is daydreaming. -- Bill Gates
Learn diligence before speedy execution. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Vision without execution is delusion. -- Thomas A. Edison
Complexity is the enemy of execution! -- Tony Robbins
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. -- Winston Churchill
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution. -- Derek Sivers
The threat is stronger than the execution. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning. -- Pat Summitt
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. -- Reid Hoffman
Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution. -- Jean Hugard
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. -- Sol LeWitt
Focus on execution rather than just the idea. -- Tony Robbins
It's the execution that matters, never the idea. -- Casey Neistat
I'm not interested until I see their execution. -- Derek Sivers
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. -- Peter Drucker
Ideas are only as good as their execution -- Tulsi Tanti
You don't win on emotion. You win on execution. -- Tony Dungy
Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code. -- Eric Baum
Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution -- Josh Becker
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one. -- Johann Peter Eckermann
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Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent. -- Stephen Covey
Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution -- Stephen Sondheim
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. -- Joseph Story
Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. -- Sam Altman
When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. -- Frank Herbert
Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution. -- Stephen Sondheim
'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution. -- Jack Dorsey
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. -- Evelyn Underhill
There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution. -- Seth Godin
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. -- Helmut Jahn
In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. -- A.J. Darkholme
I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution. -- James Daly
Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results -- Peter Drucker
Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution. -- William Hamilton Maxwell
Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does. -- Felix Dennis
First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier. -- Eva Hesse
When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste. -- Vasily Chuikov
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion. -- Tim Ferriss
Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot. -- Sam Altman
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. -- Eric Burns
The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. -- Chuck Martin
Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation. -- Vijay Govindarajan
Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution. -- William James Moore
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. -- Stephen Carter
A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate. -- Zach Klein
Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams. -- Tracy McGrady

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