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Quotes About Decisiveness

Decisiveness Decisiveness looks like leadership. Keep in mind that most normal people are at least a little bit uncertain when facing unfamiliar and complicated situation. What people crave in that sort of environment is anything that looks like certainty. If you can deliver an image of decisiveness, no matter how disingenuous, others will see it as leadership.
~ Scott Adams
A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.
~ John Barnes
Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.
~ John Barnes
Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.
~ Jase Robertson
I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet
~ Kentaro Yabuki
Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.
~ Robin Sharma
It's your life, live it your way.
~ Bob Hoskins
Photography suits the temper of this age—of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
~ Edward Weston
When the stock you are manipulating doesn't act as it should, quit. Don't argue with the tape. Do not seek to lure the profit back. Quit while the quitting is good—and cheap.
~ Edwin Lefevre
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
~ Eli Wallach
I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
~ Denis Norden
I make decisions quickly.
~ Norbert Leo Butz
I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.
~ Mariska Hargitay
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
~ Aaron Eckhart
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.
~ Casey Stoner
you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood
~ Ross H. Spencer
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you fucking options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't fucking call.
~ Russell Crowe
Being decisive means you are able to make good, timely decisions, and stick with them until the end.
~ Ryan Williams
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.
~ Sabrina Ward Harrison
To comprehend all in a few words, our life is short; we must endeavour to gain the present time with best discretion and justice.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No obres como quien ha de vivir diez mil años. Lo irreparable está ya suspendido encima de ti. Mientras vives, mientras es aún posible, sé hombre de bien.
~ Marcus Aurelius
He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.
~ Marcus Aurelius
She had her reasons. Not that they were ever the same as anybody else's reasons. She was completely ruthless in that way.
~ Margaret Atwood
She who does not hesitate is lost.
~ Margaret Atwood