Execution Quotes

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Crucifixion is the most cruel and disgusting penalty; the worst of deaths.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Public hangings [in England] were abolished in 1868. The last one took place outside Newgate Prison on 26 May of that same year. The man hanged was an Irish terrorist called Michael Barratt who had blown up the Clerkenwell House of Detention killing six people. A drunken crowd stayed up all night to witness the execution. They cheered wildly when the scaffold was brought out at dawn. More people – mainly young women and children – began to arrive. By the time a bell was sounded at eight o’clock in the morning to announce the arrival of the condemned man, the crowd stretched back as far as Smithfield.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

Done is better than perfect.

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Organize and execute around priorities.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

If heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.