Strive to make proposed
Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense. Donald Rumsfeld
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Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense. Donald Rumsfeld
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. … Read more
Tomorrow’s leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don’t sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan. Denis Waitley
It’s just about having faith in what I wrote and following through on the plan and making sure I get the pieces the way that I need them. It’s just about executing properly in production and then in post, you know, it’s working [with] and trusting my editor, and then also playing the film for … Read more
Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends. David Letterman
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. Colin Powell
Film is very much about capturing the essence of things – if you feel it, and you’ve got the right person shooting it, it’ll come across. Theater’s a different animal; it’s physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you’re mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping … Read more
About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at … Read more
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. Charles Krauthammer
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results Brian … Read more