Pragmatic Competence Quotes & Sayings

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. — Tom Stoppard

The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad. — Katee Sackhoff

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

RAISE How can we raise the number of opportunities that come our way? RECOGNIZE How can we recognize these opportunities better? RESPOND How can we better respond to the recognized opportunities? — Ashwin Sanghi

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this. — Robert Plant

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will. — Alec Baldwin

That's going to be your trouble - judgment about yourself.
(Tender is the Night) — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hate lending, or borrowing - if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned edition sits in my house like a real grievance. And in lieu of lending books, I buy extra copies of those I want to give away, which gives me the added pleasure of buying books I love again and again.
Jonathan Lethem — Leah Price

It must sound stupid, but it was I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly free, streak-free shine. — Jessica Knoll

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things. — Wallace D. Wattles

Canada is a long way to go to get Cuban Cigars" Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people — Howard G. Hendricks