“Many advocate aids to check Anger; the commonest being to count ten before you start; but if not constant, you tend to turn into the man who used to count ten before he lost his temper, but later counted in two's to get there quicker.”
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Anger
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“I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8
“A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.”
Denis Norden (1922–2018) British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter
Quoted in My Music by Steve Race
“Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
On hearing that his prizefighter, Stanley Ketchel, was dying of gunshot wounds.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
