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The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One
— M. Scott Peck
The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
— Margaret Fuller
the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.
— Frederic Bastiat
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
— Hannah Arendt
The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
— Steve Blank
You are very decisive in your indecision.
— Katherine Addison
Temptation requires definite, decisive action.
— Billy Graham
Those called upon to play a decisive part in the history of nations are more often than not unaware of the destinies they embody
— Maurice Druon
The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.
— Sauli Niinisto
Coffee. It was decisive. Without their women, their chosen drink would always be what it had been.
— Christine Feehan
To mark the paper was the decisive act.
— George Orwell
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
— Novak Djokovic
Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.
— Leyla Zana
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
— Christof Koch
The decisive means for politics is violence.
— Max Weber
The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
— Jean Baudrillard
Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
— Sun Tzu
For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.
— Kevin DeYoung
I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.
— Stanley Druckenmiller
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
— W.G. Sebald
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
— Thom Mayne
Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.
— Gary Becker
The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.
— Kim Il-sung
Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
— Dan Miller
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
— William Hague
Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.
— Ernesto Sabato
— Ernesto Sabato
Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.
— Lauren Oliver
The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.
— Pearl Zhu
Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
— Christopher Hitchens
A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Our losses ... have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
— Karl Donitz
The initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
— Jon Speelman
It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
— Heinz Guderian
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.
— Walter Brueggemann
I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.
— Chris Christie
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
— Rosa Luxemburg
We're not giving moms credit when we pose them as the decisive factor in a child's development, we're sticking them with the bill.
— Anonymous
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
— Haruki Murakami
The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.
— Bradley Byrne
Never leave the scene of clarity without taking decisive action.
— Michael Hyatt
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
— Eugenio Montale
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
— Melina Mercouri
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
— Derek Prince
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
The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.
— Howard Schultz
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
— Heinz Guderian
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
— Jeff Lindsay
A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God
— Michael L. Brown
Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
— George Weinberg
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
— Henrik Ibsen
I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.
— Rooney Mara
Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!
— Pope Francis
I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.
— Michael D. Higgins
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.
— Dick Durbin
the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom.
— Meena Srinivasan
All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
— Walter Benjamin
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
— Bryant H. McGill
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
— Agnes Smedley
I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
— Thomas Chalmers
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.
— Alexander Pushkin
There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.
— Cliff Martinez
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
— Lane Evans
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
— H.G.Wells
I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
— Chris Evert
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
— Ryan Holiday
Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated than your opponent.
— Steph Bennion
Decisive is definite.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
— Mao Zedong
Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness
— George Eliot
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
— Michael Basman
The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.
— Angela Merkel
The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones.
— Diana Gabaldon
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
— Mark Helprin
It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.
— Hans Kung
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
— Alex Ferguson
Rash decision gets you nowhere. Decisive decisions get you somewhere".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa