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Decisiveness is the willingness to make decisions, even in the face of complexity or uncertainty. When we are decisive, we weigh the information that is available to us and we use our judgement to choose among the possibilities. It is easier to be decisive when we are clear about our values and goals.


Decisiveness means taking the risk that we may be wrong, but knowing that perfect clarity is rarely available and indecision can be costly. It also means taking responsibility for the outcome of the decision. Together, research, analysis and decisiveness get great things done.

Decisiveness

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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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Disiplin is just choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect, and beginning the work of being youself.

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What use is a fine house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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Why is it we don’t always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

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Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

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A sex symbol becomes a thing, and I can't stand to be a thing.

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Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it - even though others may hesitate or differ. You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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and i know better, not to be friends with boys with girlfriends, oh i know better than that, i know better. you'll play the victim, and i'll be the bad guy, but i know better than that, no i know better.

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
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“My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'” Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
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We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgment, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

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I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

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Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1967
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

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The Strength Of Love
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate them.

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Booker T. Washington
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You can't always change the feelings you're having but you can always change your thinking.

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

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Marylin Moats Kennedy
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

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Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires
to make it happen.

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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

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Adrian Cadbury
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

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In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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Theodore Roosevelt
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

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Stephen R. Covey
Viewed on April 10, 2008
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence.

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Anne O'Hare McCormick
Viewed on April 11, 2008
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