Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.
Interpretation
Trust your decisions and act swiftly, but be ready to admit mistakes and adjust when necessary.
This quote emphasizes the importance of confidence in one's decision-making process. It advocates for making decisions quickly and standing by them as long as they seem correct. However, it also acknowledges the necessity of humility and the courage to admit when one is wrong and to change direction accordingly. This balance is crucial in leadership and personal growth, as it highlights the dual importance of conviction and adaptability.
In practice
In a leadership meeting, you could quote this to encourage team members to take initiative.
No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
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