Decisive Quotes

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Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. — Thom Mayne
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership. — Bryant H. McGill
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of… — Rafael Nadal
I'm a rather decisive type. — P.J. O'Rourke
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this… — Pope Paul VI
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. — Theodore Roosevelt
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the… — Salman Rushdie
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president.… — Eliot Spitzer
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. — Max Weber
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. — Mao Zedong
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be… — Frantz Fanon
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy â€” to be a man who is brisk about his food and… — Soren Kierkegaard
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely… — Patrick Carman
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find… — Ludwig von Mises
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a… — Italo Calvino
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are,… — Andre Gide
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail… — James Hillman
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on… — N. T. Wright
I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should… — George Orwell

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