Good Enough Quotes - Page 11

• We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.

  Deborah King

  Smart, Limiting Beliefs, Taught

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Forest Whitaker

  Years, Careers, Trying

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• I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.

  Zeena Parkins

  Sorry, Practice, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

  Gold Panda

  Thinking, Stuff, Load

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Real, Lying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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• We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

  Stephen King

  Enough, Be Good, Ifs

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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• Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Book, Track

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... 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.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Dirty, Home

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• Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?

  James Corden

  Not Good Enough, World, Want

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• I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

  Max Tundra

  Thinking, Track, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.

  Matthew Lewis

  Football, Fun, Team

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me off so badly it haunted me for 25 years. But I had to wait to be a good enough writer to give Ida her voice back. And I had to go get my own first too. I not only know the case study inside and out, like most women, I lived a version of it. Maybe it's time for us to tell our versions.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Years, Voice, Hysteria

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.

  Pedro Noguera

  Teaching, Oakland, Skills

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

  Louise Hay

  Vocabulary, Not Good Enough, Forever

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• I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.

  John Travolta

  Art, Jobs, Stress

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

  Adrian Grenier

  Opportunity, Thinking, Passionate

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Life will always change, and I'm always thinking about how to have a good-enough attitude to roll with the changes of life, of an ever-changing landscape.

  John Feldmann

  Attitude, Life Changing, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting rid of things that you love, but in the interest of making a movie that's not longer than two hours, and in the interest of when every joke hopefully is good enough, then everybody looks good. You cut things that you love, but ultimately it's for the greater good of making the whole movie better.

  Jason H. Moore

  Cutting, Two, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express yourself. Be an individual. If my record moves five people, that's good enough. I feel like I've done my job if it just touches somebody.

  Sarah Hudson

  Jobs, Moving, Kids

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• I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?

  Mari Boine

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• No - not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal - to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

  David Eugene Edwards

  Ideas, Goal, Records

  "Wovenhand". Interview with Matt Fink, www.undertheradarmag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Ladders, Showing Up, Enough

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Beer, America

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