Flawed Execution Quotes

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.

Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.

If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That's the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don't enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it. Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.