Counts Quotes

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

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.

It's the story that counts.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

What you become is what counts.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.