#execution

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

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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

#done #execution #getting #highest #highest standards

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to shake hands with death. He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been. ("3 Kills For 1") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. ↗

— William Godwin

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Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. ↗

— Sue Grafton

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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

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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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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

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