Pertinent Quotes

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Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

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 happens to be.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

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 to compare notes.

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

[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 more like the movies?"

I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.