#decisive

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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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

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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

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If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision. ↗

— Roger McGough

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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The mind of Caesar. It is the reverse of most men's. It rejoices in committing itself. To us arrive each day a score of challenges; we must say yes or no to decisions that will set off chains of consequences. Some of us deliberate; some of us refuse the decision, which is itself a decision; some of us leap giddily into the decision, setting our jaws and closing our eyes, which is the sort of decision of despair. Caesar embraces decision. It is as though he felt his mind to be operating only when it is interlocking itself with significant consequences. Caesar shrinks from no responsibility. He heaps more and more upon his shoulders. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." [The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996)] ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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