Counts Quotes
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I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.
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Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.
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No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
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Besides, it doesn't really matter does it? Guy, girl, or appearance. It's what's on the inside that counts, right?
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Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.
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Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
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Money counts more than you think.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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It is the end result that counts.
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
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The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
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What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change...
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The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
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It’s not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.
