Good Enough Quotes - Page 15

• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Dancer, Ballet, Matter

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• Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.

  Curt Gowdy

  Sports, Memories, Sea

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• I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

  Steven Morrissey

  Fingerprints, Persons, My Own

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  Mariah Carey

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Song: Outside, Album: Butterfly, 1997

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• I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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• It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

  Rupert Grint

  Self Esteem, Careers, Long

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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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• I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, Giving, Fine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, People, Evil

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Expectations, Records

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• 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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• As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

  Chris Pine

  Smart, Self, Here I Am

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.

  Oh Land

  Song, Writing, Kissing

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• An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

  Helen Hayes

  Thinking, Actresses, Enough

  The Times, December 19, 1984.

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• If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Fun, Children, Home

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