Good Enough Quotes - Page 16

• Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Powerful, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.150, Bethany House

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• I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not quite there or you need to fix this about you. So I am honestly walking in faith every single day that I am going to be able to handle whatever God has for me. I am not used to being in a place where people appreciate my work and understand my work and want to be a part of my work and getting something out of my work because for so long it was so misunderstood. The success part for me is the hardest part and everyday I'm still battling.

  Tamar Braxton

  Long, People, Appreciate

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• I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

  Sandra Bullock

  House, Would Be, Actors

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• You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.

  Johnny Carson

  Successful, Doe, Way

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Generations, Want

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.84, Melville House

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• You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Ged

  "Bring the Pain". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• Every time I get scared or feel like I'm not going to be good enough at something, I say that mantra to myself. "Pretend you're good at it."

  Jenny Lawson

  Scared, Be Good, Feels

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Mind, Laziness

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• No man is good enough to be another's master.

  William Morris

  Men, Enough, Masters

  William Morris (2017). “V&A Introduces: William Morris”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

  Robin Pecknold

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

  Paul Goodman

  Issues, People, Grace

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• Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

  Max Walker

  Passion, Fame, Should

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

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• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  Barbara Boxer

  Past, Thinking, Rights

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• Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Perspective, Events, Add

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• Practice to look stupid, practice to look like you are not good enough or smart enough where you couldn't do things right and get over it anyway. The truth of the matter is we are all going to feel that way.

  John Assaraf

  Smart, Stupid, Practice

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

  Joe Budden

  Enough

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Long, People, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

  Judd Apatow

  Intelligent, Thinking, Hbo

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I had intense anxiety, just with the acting and expectations. Am I good enough for this? This is so big. I'm on the cover of four magazines right now. Am I worthy of this? You question everything about yourself, and I did that. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure that I had the body and all of that.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Expectations, Anxiety, Acting

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I was raised with a mother who told me that I wouldn't succeed, that I wasn't good enough. Even at the pinnacle of my success, she'd come to a show, and there'd be, like, 10,000 people screaming. And she'd say, "I just don't get it." I think she had so little faith in herself and her abilities as a parent that she couldn't imagine any offspring of hers could do so well. And all that did was drive me to push back. If someone says, "You can't do this," I'm like, "F-ck you! Oh, yes I can, and I will."

  Sarah McLachlan

  Mother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I really hope that I can be as good as some people think I can be. But I may never work again... and that's the reality of the film industry. So, it's nice but I wouldn't want to go into something feeing like I needed to prove that I was good enough to be there. Maybe in some ways, it makes me think: "Do you know what? Some people think I'm alright, so maybe I should go into a job thinking I'm not rubbish." But I don't really think about it.

  Aisling Loftus

  Nice, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.

  Leroy Chiao

  War, Thinking, Flying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everybody knew about the bulimia in the family. And they all blamed the failure of the marriage on the bulimia and it's taken them time to think differently. I said I was rejected, I didn't think I was good enough for this family, so I took it out on myself. I could have gone to alcohol. I could have been anorexic. I chose to hurt myself instead of hurting all of you.

  Princess Diana

  Hurt, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I talked to people that I'd done theater with, older actors and stuff. There's a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they're good, or they wouldn't be in it. Why do you think that you're good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that's really what it came down to.

  Dean Norris

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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