Counting Quotes

384 quotes by 338 authors

Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .… — Laozi
People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on… — Alex Jones
How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting — Muhammad Ali
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. — Maurice Kendall
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. — Bobbie Ann Mason
If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we… — Robert Liparulo
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn… — Barry Diller
I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team… — Lauryn Williams
Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. — Mark Scharenbroich
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they… — Barry Sheene
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. — Ernst Mach
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is… — David Berlinski
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United… — John Spratt
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting,… — T. R. Fehrenbach
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. — Gil Kalai
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse,… — Sheri S. Tepper

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