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Quotes About Decisive

Mahanian dogmas" that governed the thinking of naval strategists right up until the beginning of the Second World War—the cult of the big gun battleship, the iron rule of concentration, and the annihilation of the enemy fleet in a single decisive battle.
~ Ian W. Toll
When you're a kid your dream is to be decisive in a Champions League final, and I managed to do that.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
Donald Trump speaks his mind. If you like it or you don't like it, at least you know where he stands.
~ Fabio Lanzoni
You take the opportunities when you get them, and you try to see if there's any cues the opposition gives you, but more important is focusing on your own process, trusting your instincts, and being decisive.
~ Karen Bardsley
I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.
~ Mischa Barton
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
~ Sun Tzu
Y es que el signo portador de significación religiosa introduce un elemento absoluto y pone fin a la relatividad y a la confusión. Algo que no pertenece a este mundo se manifiesta de manera apodíctica y, al hacerlo así, señala una orientación o decide una conducta.
~ Mircea Eliade
promise that. I shall have no bailiff; I shall continue to be my own manager, she said decisively. Very well, then; you should be thankful to me for biding. How would the farm go on with nobody to mind it but a woman?
~ Thomas Hardy
I looked at his face and saw the decisive thrust of the adolescent jaw. No intelligent life there.
~ Ilona Andrews
Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
~ Winifred Gordon
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
~ Sallust
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.
~ Edward Bernstein
Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.
~ Stephen Kinzer
This lady is not for turning.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
~ John Dickerson
I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.
~ Kristin Cavallari
Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
~ Karl Donitz
There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.
~ Mao Zedong
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.
~ Colin Powell
I think I'm decisive, and I like to get things done quickly. So if that comes across as intimidation, I'm sorry to hear it. But it's more in the interest of getting things done.
~ Anna Wintour
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Firmino is the most decisive player because he comes to play between the lines and opens the spaces to his team-mates.
~ Carlo Ancelotti