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• The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Flower, Creative, Sickness

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

  Debbi Fields

  Flaws, Excellent, Standards

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• Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.'

  Rick Barry

  Player, Focus And Concentration, Hands

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• When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Guy, Firsts

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• ...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

  Steven Kotler

  Awakening, Normal, Enough

  Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Expectations

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• You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

  Seth Godin

  Night, Settling, Status Quo

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

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• I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

  Ricky Schroder

  Writing, Enough

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• My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Son, Thinking, Opposites

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

  Eric Weiner

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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• Good ideas are not good enough. They need to be God ideas. Just because someone else’s methods work does not mean they will work for us. God plants a unique set of gifts within each of us as leaders, enabling us to do a particular work for Him in a particular way. If we deny those, opting for something else that appeals to us, we forsake the means by which God wants to give us success (1Timothy 4:14).

  Phil Pringle

  Mean, Unique, Ideas

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• Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Dad, Thinking

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• As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

  Nick Vujicic

  Lying, Thinking, Not Good Enough

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• She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

  Lynsay Sands

  Not Good Enough, Enough, Ifs

  Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.19, Harlequin

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• Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

  Ashley Montagu

  Time, Not Good Enough, Humanity

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• If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

  Jock Stein

  Matter, Referee, Ifs

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• Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Believe, Imagination

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  Floyd Abrams

  Rights, People, Not Good Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. une 15, 2005.

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• At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  School, Ideas, Imagination

  Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

  Charlaine Harris

  Break Up, Breakup, Couple

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

  Jane Green

  Insecure, Thinking, Insecurity

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Children, Dirty

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.44, Penguin

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• Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Dog, Play

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.950, Bantam

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• Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Father, Garden

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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