Top 1200 Make It Count Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Quit counting time and start making time count

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.

Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I've made a commitment to attracting 21st Century jobs to Alabama so that our hard-working citizens can count on a more secure future for their families and communities.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.

Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in ways that were never possible before and can bring a breadth of intelligence, and experiences to understanding the news we never had. And professional reporters and editors still have a unique role to play in triangulating those inputs as well as bringing three other distinct skills - access to interrogate people in power, exceptional storytelling skills, and a discipline of open minded, skeptical inquiry - which are not as likely to be found elsewhere.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

When people count me out, that gets me motivated.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

I just calorie count and knock the booze on the head and then watch the scales to see the weight come off. Now I've been very healthy.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

Burzum was never formed, as Burzum is no group, only Count Grishnackh of many colors.

Although we're all in this to make a living, why not make something to make an impact? One day, I'll make a horror film. I think I know what the audience wants.

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. I usually try to start my day with a run before I even turn on my computer and clog my head with things to be done.

Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.

For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.

Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.