“It's all about the performance. You can have the best song in the world, but if you don't perform it well, it doesn't matter.”— Harry Connick, Jr.
“I’d rather have a C-level plan with A-level execution than an A-level plan with C-level execution.”— John Doerr
“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.”— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“It is not that we had any better ideas, but we were more effective at implementing the ideas that we had.”— James Baker
“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a brilliant idea, it's to find the brilliance in the implementation.”— Iain Banks
“Hither am I come to die, and I have not been the only cause of my own death, which most justly I have deserved, but also am the cause of the death of all those persons which at this time here suffer.”— Elizabeth Barton
“I hear I shall not die before noon, and I am very sorry for it, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain.”— Anne Boleyn