Good Enough Quotes - Page 26

• I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.

  Kim Cattrall

  Hard Work, Past, Thinking

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• We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Air, Reform, Pillars

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• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  Taylor Cole

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• Don't let doing enough be good enough.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Enough, Be Good

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• No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Be Good, Customers

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• If it's good enough for beagles, it's good enough for me.

  Richard Littlejohn

  Smoking, Beagles, Ifs

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• I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Winning, Guy, Not Good Enough

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• Being close ain't good enough.

  Chris Paul

  Enough

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• Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Democracy, Humans, Human Beings

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• I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  Lana Del Rey

  Successful, Simple, Careers

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

  Kurt Fuller

  Way, Scripts, Be Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.

  John Legend

  Song, Determination, Writing

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Oil, Vices

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• The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

  Mark Twain

  Catfish, Fishes, Plenty

  Mark Twain (2016). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.172, Xist Publishing

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• We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

  Jonathan Ive

  Not Good Enough, Stuff, Pushing

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• One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.

  Toni Gonzaga

  People, Not Good Enough, Mind

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• I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Enough

  "Timothy Bradley's split decision win over Manny Pacquiao causes furore". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2012.

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• People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.

  Travie McCoy

  People, Not Good Enough, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

  Moliere

  Criticism, Locks, Misanthropy

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• I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Bible, Kings, Book

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• When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.

  Horace Walpole

  Moving, Passion, Age

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• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Jesus, Kings

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• Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Wise, Men, Satisfaction

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