#counts

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts. ↗

— Martin Ritt

#genetic #i #lot #respect #talent

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie. ↗

— Paul Scott

#always #counts #gossip #hearts #lie

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. ↗

— John Sununu

#accounts #children #create #get #higher

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#government #most #prevent #rather #than

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#counts #day #director #end #end of the day

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#clippings #counts #his #humble #man

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#american #american indians #asia #certain #collected

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

#album #counts #doing #end #end result

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#butterfly #counts #enough #moments #months

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#films #humanity #little #manufacture #nothing