George Counts Quotes

#1. Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

George Archer

#2. It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other

George Orwell

#3. Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said ...

P.C. Cast

#4. You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.

George Carlin

#5. Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

George Ade

#6. Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

George Gershwin

#7. To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mark Nepo

#8. I don't listen to opinions.

Derek Jeter

#9. What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Franz Grillparzer

#10. Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

George S. Patton

#11. I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.

Dexter Darden

#12. I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

George Gershwin

#13. Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John F. Kennedy

#14. 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.

George Strait

#15. Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

George R R Martin

#16. History is not an escalator.

Max Eastman

#17. You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

Alicia Vikander

#18. He counts to ten as quick as any man, I have seen him do it ... though when he needs to go to twenty he does take off his boots.

George R R Martin

#19. We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.

George Knudson

#20. The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts journalists.

George Orwell

#21. Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

George Sand

#22. It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

George Harrison