“It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
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“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
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Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
“What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.”
Merton Miller (1923–2000) American economist
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“In life what matters is who you can count on.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nella vita ciò che conta è su chi puoi contare.
Source: prevale.net
“Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 167)
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105763 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.