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Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Ideas are not important in China – execution is

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.

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

The key will be our composure and execution. We'll be one of the better ball-handling teams (Mukwonago) will face all year.

The initial dose will make them unconscious, and the continuous infusion will keep them that way during the relatively short time the execution will take.

Allen was 50 years old when he orchestrated the ... murders. The fact that he faces execution as a senior citizen is his responsibility... Mr Allen has shown that imprisonment is simply no guarantee of public security.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The first year (2003), Drew was sporadic in his execution of a new offense,

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

An attacker may leverage these issues to carry out a denial-of-service attack or execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of the user viewing a malicious image. An attacker may gain system privileges if an administrator views the malicious file. Local code execution may also facilitate a complete compromise.

The guys really executed our defensive game plan. Their execution combined with their intensity. We couldn't have asked for anything more.

Although execution remains solid, sales trends continue (to be) soft and key product initiatives have not played out during the last 12 months. We do not see material changes to the Barbie product line in calendar year 2006 and would not bet on a turnaround in calendar year 2007 just yet.

You've got to give the Suns credit for their execution. I think we played even with them, although they had a lot of great hustle plays to gain the advantage. But this is just the first game. We've got to go back to the drawing board.

The effort has been better. It's defensive execution and effort. It's offensive effort and poise.

The fourth quarter is likely to be filled with anxiety-provoking rumor and speculation - not fun for investors. Moreover, we do think that many investors may feel that they have heard too many excuses about execution to buy into the stock now, even at levels around $100.

The first thing you do is try to keep your team in condition. You can't afford with two weeks off to suffer from a conditioning aspect. The second thing is that you want to stay sharp in your execution and sharp mentally, particularly in the week leading up to the tournament.

The first seven minutes was as poorly as I've seen us play in a while. Our execution, our passing . . . we weren't crisp. We weren't alert. We deserved what we got.

The changes improve accountability and reduce complexity in our management structure. Aligning our managers directly with our key priorities will result in better execution and effectiveness.

The concept is one that people getthe ability to enjoy your music, photos and videos from anywhere in your room. It's all in the implementation and execution. You can see the Apple detailsit's an experience unlike anything else that exists.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

The market has priced out near-term bankruptcy risk. But the company still has industry risk, execution risk and turnaround risk.

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

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.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Execution is the job of the business leader.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

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.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

You are your projects!

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea…

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making them

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.