Quotes with execution

  • A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
  • Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
  • Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Otto von Bismarck A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
    Otto von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Dustin Hoffman A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
    Dustin Hoffman
    American actor and director (1937 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    Source: The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Adam Ferguson 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.
    Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Brad D. Smith 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
    American businessman
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  • Ulysses S. Grant I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • William E. Gladstone 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.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Paul Klee 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
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • John Ruskin 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
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bayard Taylor Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Hepworth 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
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Ansel Adams Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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