Jeste defines wisdom as a mutli-component personality trait that includes empathy, compassion, self-knowledge, openness to new ideas, decisiveness, emotional regulation and doing things for others rather than for yourself.
On January 2, full of new-year decisiveness, he writes to her: "I can finally say that under no circumstances will I be married in an RC church - or have RC children.
The new president's decisiveness is being questioned, he says, and his political enemies are looking for signs of weakness.
In one tiny moment in the "Emeralds" pas de trois, the soloist Erica Pereira, by reversing position to arrive in the full stretch of arabesque, lighted up the whole stage with a new kind of decisiveness.
After all the dithering and lying and dodgy ethics and comely interns of the Clinton years, Americans found the new president's decisiveness, punctuality, uncomplicated marriage and early bedtimes refreshing.
But in executing the combination of Hewlett and Compaq more effectively than many analysts had expected, Ms. Fiorina is making the case that she can also bring a new level of decisiveness to a company that has lacked a strong sales and marketing orientation.
This may simply be a coincidence, but Evolv's analysts reckon that applicants' willingness to go to the trouble of installing a new browser shows decisiveness, a valuable trait in a potential employee.Another of Evolv's findings was that applicants who belonged to one or two online social networks tended to stay in their jobs for longer than those who belonged to four or more social networks.
Instead of being an absolute catastrophe, a scandal that could have prematurely jeopardized his new status, Silver's decisiveness in the face of a potentially damaging controversy might end up being the defining moment of his reign.
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo has claimed that Hepburn's performances fostered a "decisiveness toward a new vision of women".
During a White House news briefing, the press secretary, Jay Carney, said that "our position is and has been that it's critical for Europe to move with force and decisiveness now, particularly with new governments coming into place in Italy, Greece and Spain".
