Ornette Coleman Quotes

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Every mission accomplished.

You always succeed in producing a result.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

What you do, you don't think of as a product.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Well done is better than well said.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

The end crowneth the work.

Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.

To be is to do.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.