Good Enough Quotes - Page 24

• What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Loss, Not Good Enough

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• If you're old enough, you're good enough

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Commentators, Ifs

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• You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'

  Mike Babcock

  Growing Up, Team, School

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• On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

  Bobby Orr

  Winning, Night, Nhl

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• We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Pie

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• I'm upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That's unacceptable. If I want to be accepted by Wilt and Kareem and Russell I've got to start playing better than that. Right now I'm still in the class of Hakeem and David Robinson and that's not good enough for me. I want to be out there with the immortals.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Should Have, Class

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• I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

  Rapsody

  Remember, My Family, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"

  Kristen Stewart

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

  David Bowie

  Song, Art, Writing

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.34, Melville House

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• The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

  Steven Morrissey

  Labels, Records, Maps

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Watches, Three

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• Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

  Graham Cooke

  Not Good Enough, Perception, Walks

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• This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Perfect, Toxic

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• A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Husband, Men

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

  Cullen Hightower

  Feet, Support, Be Good

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• I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

  Charles Teo

  People, Social, Feels

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

  Jane Fonda

  Perfect, Enough, Supposed To Be

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough.

  Nick Vujicic

  Prayer, Not Good Enough, Different

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Interesting, Not Good Enough, Saint

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• The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

  Harriet Martineau

  Education, Country, Political

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.269

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• Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Perfect Parents, Needs

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Should Have, Singing

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Hangover, Looks

  Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

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• Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

  Harriet Lerner

  Reason, Enough, Alone In Love

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• No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Future, Opposites, Heaven

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.292

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