Good Enough Quotes - Page 14

• If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Discipline, Trying

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• All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Play

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• When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.

  Don Shula

  Football, Nfl, Not Good Enough

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• Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

  Paul Harvey

  Daughter, Father, Grandchildren

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• It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.

  Donald Trump

  Business, Believe, People

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• I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright

  Eyedea

  Past, Light, Bruises

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• One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Writing, Paradox

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• I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Agony, Passionate

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• A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Art, Strong

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• As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Law, Three

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

  Confucius

  Trust, Leadership, Respect

  "The Analects".

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• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Book, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Not Good Enough, Heaven

  "The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

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• But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Leadership, Passion, Thinking

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• What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

  Bjork

  Editing, Circles, Singing

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• It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.

  Anders Dahlvig

  Responsibility, Law, Issues

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• Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Prayer, Home, Sunday

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• I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

  Christian Bale

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

  Christian Bale

  Dog, Dark, Deserve More

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• Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

  Cory Monteith

  Causes, Enough, Be You

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• There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

  Cher

  Nice, Enough, Seems

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• There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Horse, Teeth, Magazines

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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Past, Thinking

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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