Walt Kelly Quotes

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Execution is everything.

A great idea is not enough.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

Well done is better than well said.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.