Counts Quotes
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Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
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More Counts Quotes
Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.
sandra bullock— As quoted in Uptown Magazine - Winnipeg's Online Source for Arts, Entertainment & News (8 January 2009)
Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
pierre de coubertin— Pierre de Coubertin, The Olympics—Where Are They Headed?; Awake! February 8, 1977.
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.
— On his stated opposition to the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese at the end of World War II, as quoted in Newsweek (11 November 1963)
Death comes with a crawl or he comes with a pounce. And whether he's slow, or spry, it isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, but only, how did you die?
— Edmund Vance Cooke, How Did You Die?
The grabbing hands grab all they can. All for themselves, after all it's a competitive world. Everything counts in large amounts.
— Depeche Mode; from the song, Everything Counts (1983)
silver bullet (SIL-vuhr BOOL-it) noun: A quick solution to a thorny problem. [From the belief that werewolves could be killed when shot with silver bullets.] "Writing code, he (Stuart Feldman) explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity."
— Survey: The Beast of Complexity; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 14, 2001.
What counts? In science is to be not so much the first as the last.
Erwin Chargaff— In Science, vol. 172 (1971)
The distance does not matter; it is only the first step that counts.
— 1763 Commenting on the legendof St Denis, said to have carried his severed head for six miles following his execution. Letter, 7 Jul.
Mistakes are a fact of life It is the response to error that counts.
Giovanni, Nikki in full Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr— 1968 Black Judgement,'Of Liberation', stanza16.
La naissance n'est rien o u' la vertu n'est pas. Birth counts for little when virtue is lacking.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière— 1665 Dom Juan, act 4, sc.4.
You truly are an extraordinary man, Mr Sandeen. Nobody I know counts weeks. That is absolutely marvelous.
— Kalla det vad fan du vill, Finland 2005, p. 85
Here is a list of fearful things: The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings. The rabid bite of the dog's of war. The voice of one who went before. But most of all the mirror's gaze, which counts us out our numbered days.
clive barker— Abarat, Book One
After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
Djuna Barnes— Greenwich Village as It Is, in Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916)
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
aaron hill— As quoted in The Golden Treasury of Thought : A gathering of quotations from the best ancient and modern authors (1873) edited by John Camden Hotten
Every little thing counts in a crisis and we want our weight felt and our voice heard in quarters which are for the avoidance of world conflict.
jawaharlal nehru— Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches 1949 - 1953 (1954), p. 144
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
walter pater— Ch. 6 (Marius the Epicurean (1885))
Elected in 2002 to the Assembly, he has a strong record of supporting immigrants and working people in the community. He has a long list of Democratic endorsements, from almost every union and public official who counts. Among the most enthusiastic are women’s groups.
jose peralta— Editorial (March 10, 2010). "Meet the Candidate: A Convicted Abuser". The New York Times (The New York Times Company): p. A26. Retrieved on 2010-03-10.
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them — without distortion which would mar their exact significances — into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn’t what he says that counts as a work of art, it’s what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.
william carlos williams— Introduction
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
meher baba— Discourses (1967), p. 364
It is through an “intimate cessation of all intellectual operations” that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.
georges bataille— p. 13 (L’Expérience Intérieure (1943))
Only the present counts.
Georges Bernanos— Chantal to Dr. La Pérouse, p.189
IT is not size that counts in business . Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5 million. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it
— Herbert N. Casson cited in: Alfred Armand Montapert (1964) Distilled Wisdom. p. 68
IT is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5 million. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.
— Herbert N. Casson as cited in: Alfred Armand Montapert (1964) Distilled Wisdom. p. 68.
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, On his stated opposition to the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese at the end of World War II, as quoted in Newsweek (11 November 1963)
2 Kalki 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Hidden talent counts for nothing. ~ Nero (born December 15)
— SOURCE: The Flames of Rome - Page 221 by Paul L. Maier - 1991
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth ; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, in Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation (1909-1913)
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us what convictions, what courage, what faith win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
— Adlai Stevenson, in an address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 17
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Frank Robinson— American former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager
