Quotes About Decisiveness

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

She was no longer shaken. If she remembered her screams in the fire she did not care to dwell on them. If she remembered that, before the fire, she had wept real tears in my arms, it made no change in her; she was, as always in the past, a person of little indecision, a person for who habitual quiet did not mean anxiety of regret.

Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other.

Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other. The

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

as with any leader, it would be a mistake for him to show weakness or exhibit doubts …

código del escorpión: mira despacio, pica rápido y vete más rápido todavía. —De

More haste, less speed.

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

As a catcher, you can't be afraid. You gotta make fast decisions.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

I have seen some great players doing wonderful things, but being so decisive for so long over 12 or 14 years as a professional, I think no player, maybe only Pele in his time, has shown that level. He shows it in every game. I don't know how many hat-tricks he's had.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.