Execution Quotes

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution

Hank Aaron

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Ansel Adams

The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.

Unknown

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.

William Shakespeare

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

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

John Donne

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

George Edmund Street

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Brent Scowcroft

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

William A. Foster

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

George Washington

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman

The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.

Roberto Assagioli

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.

Hank Aaron

Anyway, it's liberating when you get to a point in a poem where you can legitimately deviate from the form, and I like the tension that can exist between expectation and execution. Like there's something a little more idiosyncratic or individual going on.

Simon Armitage
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