I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
Every little job counts. Design counts.
Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.