“ You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. ”
- Chris Evert Lloyd- Copy
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“ Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. ”
- Phyllis Bottome- Copy
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“ And I think it's a little early to be concluding that any judgment like that would be conclusive. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment. ”
- Winifred Gordon- Copy
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“ If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. ”
- Lee Iacocca- Copy
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“ The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it. ”
- James Moffatt- Copy
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“ Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. ”
- Brian Tracy- Copy
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“ It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. ”
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy- Copy
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“ One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. ”
- Max Weber- Copy
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“ The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
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“ The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence. ”
- Anne O’Hare McCormick- Copy
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“ These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people. ”
- Zedong Mao- Copy
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“ President Bush uses a lot of broad language and imagery when he speaks. It makes him sound determined and decisive, but when you get behind that facade and look at the actions, you see flip-flop. Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush knows exactly what flip-flopping is… ”
- Frank Lautenberg- Copy
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“ We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is… more merciful than a prolonged struggle. ”
- Charles Clark- Copy
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“ Aside from his scintilla of candor, Mr. Bush is still not leveling with us. As he said at his press conference on Monday, 'the enemies of freedom' know that 'a democratic Iraq will be a decisive blow to their ambitions because free people will never choose to live in tyranny… ”
- Maureen Dowd- Copy
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“ Swimming isn't the most thrilling sport in the world, far from it; it's a damn bore most of the time, but it does make you healthy and gives you a good body. I finished first as the anchor man in the final, decisive relay against Andover, to become an athletic mini-hero for about 15 minutes. ”
- John Knowles- Copy
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“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”
- Maurice Blanchot- Copy
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“ You were either against the war in Vietnam or you were for the war. There was a very decisive line. You were either on one side or the other. I'm not so sure that in today's present climate that there is a galvanizing issue that could bring together the youth of the country and have them express themselves like they had in the '60s… ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
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“ Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what hd been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment… ”
- Martin Buber- Copy
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“ Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action — to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors: competence. ”
- Peter Koestenbaum- Copy
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