Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting"
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Counting
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Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Quit counting time and start making time count"
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting."
Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read."
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"People don't always do what they say they're going to do."
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"After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count."
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"Counting time is not as important as making time count."
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"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."
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"I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting."
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"Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears."
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"Well take care of the counting."
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"I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society."
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"Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood..."
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"Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers."
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"The only things worth counting on are people you can count on."
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""I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics"."
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"If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation."
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