“You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao”
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John Steakley 2
American writer 1951–2010Related quotes
“Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.”
"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 167)
General sources
“What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.”
Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers. 1999
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105763
Second term as Prime Minister
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.
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?
“You must understand that ordinary efforts do not count; only superefforts count.”
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century