This chapter adopts the perspective of discourse analysis and investigates empirically how semi-structured qualitative interviews reveal how informants produce accounts of the development of wise practice during their life-course. Building on earlier work conducted in the frame of a praxeological approach of discourse organisation, an approach that examines the goal-directed nature of language use in context, the chapter presents a conceptual framework for investigating the relations between discourse and action through a range of interconnected theoretical perspectives. In a second part, the chapter applies this conceptual framework as a relevant analytical instrument for describing how informants verbalise their actions in the specific context of research interviews conducted with experienced professionals in Geneva, Switzerland. The analysis reveals the tensions that may arise between situated actions, on one hand, and typical or recurrent practices, on the other. It also highlights the ways in which individual engagement in practices is closely interrelated with distributed and collective forms of agency.