Good Enough Quotes - Page 29

• I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

  Ruby Bentall

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Insane, Would Be, Source

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

  Morten Tyldum

  Father, Son, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Attention, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

  T Bone Burnett

  Jobs, Enough, Streets

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• 'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

  Meg Whitman

  Perfect, Enemy, Enough

  Meg Whitman, Joan O'C Hamilton (2010). “The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life”, p.60, Crown Business

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• I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.

  Harvey Pekar

  Lying, Writing, People

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• Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

  Sophie Barthes

  Mean, Reality, Modern

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Definitions

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.195, Penguin

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• Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

  Calum Hood

  Being Yourself, Not Good Enough, Matter

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• When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.

  Caleb Followill

  Girl, Song, Jobs

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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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• It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

  Melvin Konner

  Ideas, Adequate, Hearing

  Melvin Konner (1984). “The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit”

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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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• It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

  Dana Perino

  Not Good Enough, Important, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

  Dana Perino

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Beats

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

  Vijay Singh

  Heart, Kind, Persons

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• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  Glenn Frey

  Jobs, Band, Sometimes

  "The Eagles' Greatest Hit" by Bill Simmons, grantland.com. August 14, 2013.

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• When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

  John McCain

  Talking, Dollars, Trust Me

  "Bailout Plan Makes McCain 'Deeply Uncomfortable'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 23, 2008.

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• It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

  Debbie Ford

  Love You, Feel Good, Special

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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• My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

  Catherine Tate

  Thinking, Advice, Locks

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• When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.

  River Phoenix

  Trying, Actors, Mold

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

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• I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

  Charlie Daniels

  Country, Attitude, Son

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