Top 100 What Counts Quotes
#1. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
Paulo Coelho
#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. Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.
Rhonda Britten
#4. It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.
Bryce Courtenay
#5. When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life
Ara Guler
#6. When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.
David Amerland
#7. Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Walter Darby Bannard
#8. No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.
Daniel Keyes
#9. What counts in any man is the consistency and integrity of his behavior, and his courage in taking a stand, not his conformity to official dogma.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#10. To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.
Marty Rubin
#11. But you didn't rest your mind. your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear
Arthur Miller
#12. When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts.
Brian Moore
#13. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.
Ludwig Von Mises
#15. What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
Otto Preminger
#16. There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it ... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.
Philip Guston
#17. A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
Michael Ignatieff
#18. What i do in my personal time is about me. if other people dont agree, then it doesn't matter 'cos it's my opinion and that's what counts at the end of the day.
Louis Tomlinson
#20. The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
Jay McInerney
#22. What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
Albert Einstein
#23. Criticism is just someone else's opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.
Rodolfo Costa
#24. What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.
Gerhard Richter
#25. More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Joan Miro
#26. A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.
Steven Hall
#27. I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.
Marvin Hamlisch
#28. It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.
Orna Ross
#29. What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
Muhammad Ali
#30. The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
Julian Barnes
#31. A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
Erich Maria Remarque
#32. To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. 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.
Angelina Jolie
#34. The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
Ray Bradbury
#35. Pvt. Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is what counts!"
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman USMC
Matthew Modine
#36. Deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts.
Noam Chomsky
#37. What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.
Bruce Wilkinson
#38. Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#40. Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.
Merle Miller
#41. My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
Andrew Greeley
#42. Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.
Samael Aun Weor
#43. Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.
Ricky Gervais
#44. But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.
James McBride
#45. Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
#46. I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life
I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life
day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
Robert Fulghum
#47. In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
Dai Vernon
#48. What counts in life usually cannot be counted.
Robert Gordis
#49. The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
Umberto Eco
#51. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
Bernard Hopkins
#52. I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
Javier Bardem
#53. What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
Marc Chagall
#54. In the end, what counts is what you do.
Leroy Hood
#55. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.
Brian Dennehy
#56. Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.
Josh Kaufman
#57. One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin
#58. The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
Gelek Rimpoche
#59. What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
Georg Baselitz
#60. The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#61. What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
Richard Rorty
#62. Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
#63. As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
Shawn Johnson
#64. What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.
Ronald Dworkin
#65. I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
Ziggy Marley
#66. We ought to love children, as my friend Deborah says, 'for no good reason.' Furthermore, what counts is not that we believe we love them unconditionally, but that they feel loved in that way.
Alfie Kohn
#67. This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.
Thomas Hirschhorn
#68. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.
Debasish Mridha
#69. What counts is to be in the world, the posture is immaterial, so long as one is on earth. To breathe is all that is required.
Samuel Beckett
#70. It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.
A. Philip Randolph
#71. Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Louis L'Amour
#72. What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
Nelson Mandela
#73. What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#74. What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Jean Gebser
#75. This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
Eugen Herrigel
#76. What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
Diane Kruger
#77. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.
Rawi Hage
#78. All technologies are neutral. What counts is who uses them and what they use them for. Any material, any tool in the hands of an artist, can result in a work of art.
Ken Robinson
#79. What you become is what counts.
Liz Smith
#80. What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
Rene Burri
#81. My room is much better than Axel's and that's what counts, right?" "That's right," Dad said. "Hey!" Axel said.
Aileen Erin
#82. Exposure and experience is all, what counts.
Lovely Goyal
#83. So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice.
Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.
Maki Murakami
#84. Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#86. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#87. I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
H. G. Bissinger
#88. Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; "presuppositional" apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositions in both what counts as truth and what is recognized as true.
James K.A. Smith
#89. This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
Haile Gebrselassie
#90. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis
#91. The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
Eric Hoffer
#93. The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
Ernest A. Fitzgerald
#94. What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within
Denzel Washington
#95. What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
Merton Miller
#96. What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
Theodore Roosevelt
#97. 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.
Eknath Easwaran
#98. Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most.
Toru Kumon
#99. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.
Pericles
#100. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.
Arthur Hailey
