Quotes About Decisiveness

always loved this sentence in Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Eighties edition I had in college: "The previous edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves included a brief section on astrological birth control, which just doesn't work." So much going on in that sentence, dispatched with no drama. Maybe a shade of irony, but no hand-wringing—just a change of mind announced as efficiently and discreetly and decisively as possible.

Nunca haga lo que otros pueden hacer por usted.

The best strategy is always to be very strong first in general, then at the decisive point.... There is no higher and simpler law of strategy than that of keeping one's forces concentrated.... In short the first principle is: act with the utmost concentration. On War, Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831

And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.

DECISIVENESS The world is moving faster and faster. Stock market trades are made in milliseconds. Deals come and go on the Internet in a matter of minutes. More and more people are competing for good deals. So the faster you can make a decision the more likely you'll be able to seize opportunities—before someone else does.

If you can't make up your mind decisively, then you'll never learn to make money anyway. Opportunities come and go. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill. You have the opportunity that you asked for.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

Could you be ruthless and be fair, at the same time? Isn't to be ruthless, to be unfair?

Science rejects the indeterminate.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Quit making believe you don't know. You do know. Act on it.

About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.

If it's doubtful, it's dirty.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

When in doubt, do something.

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier to just do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

sorry waste time. you have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

not the kind of girl to break up and get back together on a whim; once she's decided something, that's it. There's no waffling, no regrets. It's like she said: when she's done, she's just done.

Tavsiyemi dinle, Lara Jean. Evet demek istedi?in zamanlarda asla hay?r deme.

Once she's decided something, that's it.