"Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing wellâ€”executionâ€”is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesnâ€™t is because of executionâ€”people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on executionâ€”on the ability to get things done."

-- Jeffrey Pfeffer

#Football Quotes #Block Quotes #Play Quotes

“It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.”
“The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay in the euro zone.”

Source : "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.
“We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.”
“I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.”

Source : "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Mike McGonigal, pitchfork.com. December 21, 1997.
“I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.”
“If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?”
“A day spend with friends is always a day well spend.”

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