Good Enough Quotes - Page 19

• Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

  Bruce Nauman

  Gone, Done, Sometimes

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• If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Not Good Enough, Talent

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.

  Elbert Guillory

  Government, People, Not Good Enough

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• If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

  Ted Yoho

  Enough, Ifs

  "Ted Yoho: Upset winner isn't horsing around". Interview with Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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• If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

  Tom Odell

  Song, Powerful, People

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• Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, People, Overcoming

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• I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

  David S. Goyer

  Ideas, Feelings, Sometimes

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• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, War, Winning

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• We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best you can be, you'll let that 'not good enough' mentality go and be on your way to loving yourself, no matter what.

  Jude Bijou

  Unique, Loving Yourself, Accomplishment

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• Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Failure, Able

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

  Laozi

  People, Goodness, Ifs

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• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reading, Writing, Common Sense

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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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• I think we have to find somebody out there to beat New England besides us, and I think that would help. Anybody out there that wants to sign up for it? Are you good enough as a team to beat the New England Patriots? Forget about us, are you good enough to go out and beat the New England Patriots? I'm challenging the league.

  Rex Ryan

  Team, Thinking, League

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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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• It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

  Rick Mercer

  Kids, Get Better, Different

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• My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Who Cares, Want, Scripts

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• I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Heart, Twelve

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that’s why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn’t even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

  Barry Sanders

  Thinking, Looks, Posts

  "Barry Sanders talks 'NCAA 13' cover". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 17, 2012.

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• My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

  Troian Bellisario

  School, Ivy, League

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

  Wolf Blitzer

  School, Not Good Enough, Flying

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