The phrase "for what really counts" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to emphasize something important or to show that something is particularly meaningful. For example, "We don't have much money, but we have each other, and that's what really counts."
The outsized emphasis on test scores has driven instruction toward items with one clear, right answer, in an attempt to prepare students for what really counts--the standardized test.
If any possessions or arrangements to care for possessions interfere with what really counts in your life (for example, extra work hours keep you away from time with your children, having to care for an item in a particularly time-consuming manner), pay special attention to these time-squandering diversions and choose to lose or reduce them.
Quantification turns what should be sacred into something profane because what really counts for our life on this earth is precisely what cannot be counted.
In one recent study, Andrew Postlewaite, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues Nicola Persico and Dan Silverman, determined that what really counts for a man's professional success in life, heightwise, is not his adult height, but the height he was in high school.
So what really counts as extinction?
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Rather than what really counts.
Clear your inbox and focus instead on what really counts.
When we count or are counted among others we can start to focus more on what really counts.
As the French and English players stood with their arms around one another, Jeanpierre thanked the Wembley crowd for "knowing what really counts".
And, for Mungiu, that's what really counts: vocal realism.
