#counting

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#counting #go #i #money #stupid

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#almost #complete #could #entire #entire universe

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 cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you. ↗

— Robert Liparulo

#cry #tears #love

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#blessings #counting #envy #fellow #instead

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#consistency #counting #going #mean #need

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ↗

— Merry Browne

#count #friends #want #worth #you