Counting Quotes

“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...”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.”
― Toni Jordan, Addition

“Count to ten," I whisper to myself. "Count. To. Ten." Becuase when I finish counting, this horror shall end.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman

“I will count my blessings when I am in the doldrums, count to ten when I am quarrelsome, and count on my friends when I need a laugh.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“Those who count things are not worthy of assisting the people.”
― Zhuangzi, The Book of Chuang Tzu

“You can count in binary on your fingers up to 1023.”
― Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

“Welcoming a new year is not only about counting the last moments, it's about being ready for every moment of the next one year.”
― Munia Khan

“Stop counting pages… you will never finish the book.”
― Deyth Banger

“Counting fingers doesn't make us mathematicians”
― Munia Khan

“…saving ourselves sometimes means hurting others, even if only in small ways, even if only temporarily. It’s mercy math: there’s a cost, but we count, too.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“...as if his bank account wasn't about to see numbers it would have to take a remedial math course just to identify.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Es war ein brillanter Plan. Die Sache hatte nur einen Hacken: den Haken an der Futterkammertür. An diesem Haken hing ein Schloss. Ein Schloss, das man nur durch Zählen öffnen konnte. Die Schafe konnten nicht besonders gut zählen, aber einen Versuch war es wert.

‘Drei!’, sagte Heide.
‘Acht!’, schnaubte Othello.
‘Vier!’, blökte das Winterlamm.

Das Futterkammerschloss zeigte sich wenig beeindruckt von ihrem Zählkünsten.”
― Leonie Swann, Garou

“If the criticism holds in it the insult, and abuse; it is just the brain dirt. The wise and the clean thinkers are far from that, but the awkward people make it their tongue dress, as compared to the honey bee and the flies regardless of counting.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Take a walk around a hospital counting the wireless radiation antenna systems and you will be shocked at how large the number is!”
― Steven Magee

“Details aside, the frequency-of-seeing experiment brings forward a beautiful idea: the probabilistic nature of our perceptions reflects the physics of random photon arrivals. An absolutely crucial point is that Hecht, Shlaer, and Pirenne chose stimulus conditions such that the five to seven photons needed for seeing were distributed across a broad area on the retina, an area that contains hundreds of photoreceptor cells. Thus, the probability of one receptor (rod) cell receiving more than one photon is very small. The experiments on human behavior therefore indicate that individual photoreceptor cells generate reliable responses to single photons. In fact, vision begins (as we discuss in more detail soon) with the absorption of light by the visual pigment rhodopsin, and so sensitivity to single photons means that each cell is capable of responding to a single molecular event. This is a wonderful example of using macroscopic experiments to draw conclusions about single cells and their microscopic mechanisms.”
― William Bialek, Biophysics: Searching for Principles

“Breathe in and breathe out for me in even 1-2 counts,' the doctor instructed Herman.
Herman did as he was told even though one is an odd number.”
― J.S. Mason, The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats

“So many” is not the same as “too many.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“‘So many’ is not the same as ‘too many.’”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Take a deep breath, close your eyes and count to three.”
― LaTasha Reynolds, Bryla's Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon

“Counting smiles that we see in one day is a lot easier than counting stars.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“On three," I say.

"One, two, three, go or one, two, three?" Anakin asks.

Micah huffs. "On go."

I begin counting, "One, two, three—"

Anakin steps away and Micah screeches, "Dude, we said on go!”
― Rory Miles, Tainted Power - The Complete Series

“Don't be a penny while counting the pennies.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Progress will happen with a little dedication to the goal each day.”
― Tin Cat, Counting With Genja ! 1-20: Make counting fun for kids

“When we're first learning sitting meditation, it can be useful to count our breaths. Count "one" for the first in- and out-breath. Count "two" for the second, and so on. If your mind wanders and you lose count, go back to "one" and begin again. This exercise helps develop concentration. You may think counting to ten is easy, but counting to ten while breathing mindfully takes a lot of focus.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit

“The migraine held me in its gloomy embrace. I rocked in my bed. I willed the railroad spike to remove itself from my head. I counted sheep. I counted breaths. I counted back from 100. I counted on myself. The pain in my head burned lethal umber and gold, shaped like a dagger and sharp as betrayal. I named it Detective Wasserman. I gave it flesh with my worrying, and I flayed it, inch by glorious inch.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“It has never occurred to me that counting millions of leaves and swarms of bees could make money. Who could possibly be interested in how many branches there are in a tree, how many birds in a flight that crosses the sky?”
― Malba Tahan, The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

“Donkey's greatest pleasure on any walk, day or night, was in counting, sorting, and measuring the bits and pieces of roots or closed-up flowers or nuts they collected, or the crows in the trees, but Herself sometimes got carried away by a certain kind of breeze, or by the appearance of a wet-looking mushroom poking up through the leaf litter, pink like a dog's penis, or a songbird flying off to leave an exposed egg glowing pale green in the smudged light of the moon. Or after the first hard freeze, a fragile flower made of ice appearing at the base of a wingstem stalk would bring tears to her eyes.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

“I have lots of memories of counting down the eight hours at work until I could go home!”
― Steven Magee

“Just count the stars, Dena”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful