Counting Quotes
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?
We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.
The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.
We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.
You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards in Vegas, but Im just trying to add things up.
The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.
Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
