Good Enough Quotes - Page 19

• I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

  Aimee Liu

  Smart, Tough, Shut Up

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• I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Brain, Needs, Doing Good

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

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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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• 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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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Football, Athlete, Player

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• What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  I've Learned, Enough

  "The 24 Best Things Said Backstage At The 2014 Oscars" by Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Daughter, Mother, Perfection

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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• I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Mother, Break, Feels

  "Mary Tyler Moore's Life Outside Hollywood" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• 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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