Good Enough Quotes - Page 23

• For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

  Thomas Keller

  Yesterday, Cooking, Important

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• Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.

  Luis Tiant

  Heart, Perfect, Not Good Enough

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• Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!

  Linford Christie

  Real, Enough Said, Foxes

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• You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

  Robert Crandall

  Teamwork, Business, Player

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• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  Alan Alda

  Asking, Steps, Boxes

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• People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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• When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Osteen: Romney is a Christian" by Ashley Killough, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Careers, Not Good Enough, Looks

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2013.

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• You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sleep, Stories, World

  Patricia Briggs (2001). “The Hob's Bargain”, p.68, Penguin

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• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Depressing, Lonely, Writing

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

  Scott Hahn

  Sins Not, Evil, Want

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• a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

  Jodi Picoult

  Smart, Risk, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Artist, Vanity

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

  P. C. Cast

  Past, Years, Parent

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series Books 1-4: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen and Untamed”, p.212, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

  Karen Hesse

  Dust, Trying, Facts

  Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.222, Scholastic Inc.

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• He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in years, but I recognized it — a McDonald’s Happy Meal. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. “In my day, we used animal blood,” the ghost mumbled. “It’s perfectly good enough. They can’t taste the difference.” “I will treat them with respect,” Nico said. “At least let me keep the toy,” the ghost said.

  Rick Riordan

  Animal, White, Differences

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• We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

  John Abizaid

  Government, Challenges, Quality

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• Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Flirting, People

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lying, Heart, Difficult Work

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• A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Males, Forget

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.254, Penguin

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• If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Night, Technology, Wind

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• I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

  Bette Midler

  Religious, Holiday, Self

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

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• The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

  Shirley Manson

  Powerful, Voice, Feel Good

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• If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

  Robert Crais

  Vision, Astronaut, Ifs

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• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Quality, Energy

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