Quotes About Decisive

we've seen how massive changes often hinge on single moments

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of "center of gravity" and the "decisive point"—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center of the board. Wei qi teaches the art of strategic encirclement.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where the troops are stationed, nor by the number of cannon or of slaughtered men, but by that intangible force called the spirit of the army, and he watched this force and guided it in as far as that was in his power.

She was in the same state of excitement, when the reasoning powers act quickly, as a man before battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man proves once and for all his mettle, and shows that his past life has not been lived in vain but has been a preparation for these moments.

I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Effective combat leadership should empower the fighting troops to take initiative and decisive action at the lowest level to support the common goal.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

We often hear military experts inculcate the doctrine of giving priority to the decisive theatre. There is a lot in this. But in war this principle, like all others, is governed by facts and circumstances;

La camera si riempì ora di azioni decise e precise, le quali però, essendo nate dalla noia, dall'oziosità, dal capriccio, celavano in sé una certa dose di imbecillità.

Ricordando la disfatta bulgara, evento decisivo per l'esito della 1° guerra mondiale e dunque per la fine di una civiltà, il conte Károlyi scrive che, mentre lo aveva vissuto, non aveva percepito la sua importanza, perché "in quel momento, non era ancora diventato ." P.42

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

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.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

Being a fast mover and being decisive—it is very hard to be successful and not have those traits as a founder. Why that is, I'm not perfectly clear on, but I think it is something . . . about the only advantage that start-ups have or the biggest advantage that start-ups have over large companies is agility, speed, willing to make non-consensus, concentrated bets, incredible focus. That's really how you get to beat a big company.

Anybody can be decisive during a panic; it takes a strong man to act during a boom.

Managers are action-focused; they are not philosophers and should not be.

At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.

mealy-mouthed. My mother would fillet any man who made such a ridiculous statement." Both men glanced at Lily who, having seen Kathy's son restored to her, had regained her seat, and was listening quietly. She lifted her dark eyes to her daughter's. "Quite right, Jenny," she said serenely with a smile at her husband.

Believe me, Lang, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive … for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day.