Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.