Pertinent Quotes

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The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that… — Chester Barnard
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. — Oscar Wilde
[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be… — Ernie Pyle
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment… — Bob Schieffer
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. — Al Swearengen
An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create… — John Wooden
One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and can quote it… — Gordon B. Hinckley
As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a… — David Duke
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or… — Arthur Koestler
It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer. — Prince Philip
The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the… — Harvey Jackins
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never… — Wynton Marsalis
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able… — H P Lovecraft
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's… — Vladimir Nabokov
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I… — Orson Scott Card
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind… — Samuel R. Delany
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to… — Judith McNaught
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.â€ â€œNew Orleans.â€ â€œWhat a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once." â€œHow nice… — Douglas Preston

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