Good Enough Quotes - Page 28

• 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

  Seth Godin

  Long, Why Not, Mediocrity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.31, Penguin

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• I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

  Sally Field

  Being Yourself, Not Good Enough, Want

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• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, People, Leader

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• If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

  Jenny Holzer

  Artist, Honest, Never Good Enough

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• Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

  Ken Blanchard

  Expectations, Fans, Want

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• I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

  Matt Busby

  Would Be, Manchester United, Be Good

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Finishing

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• On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Lasts, Good Work

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• I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

  Johnny Winter

  Mean, Men, Guitar

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• Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

  Al Alvarez

  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Blue

  A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

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• My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Who Cares, Want, Scripts

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• It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

  Rick Mercer

  Kids, Get Better, Different

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• If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

  Georgina Chapman

  Party, Doe, Want

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• This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

  William Empson

  World, Be Good, Ifs

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• I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

  Steven Erikson

  Mean, Fighting, Soldier

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.533, Random House

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• You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that’s why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn’t even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

  Barry Sanders

  Thinking, Looks, Posts

  "Barry Sanders talks 'NCAA 13' cover". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 17, 2012.

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• My health is good enough about the shoulders.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Health, Shoulders

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• Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Stars, Eye, Night

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Air

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.322, Penguin

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• My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

  Wolf Blitzer

  School, Not Good Enough, Flying

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• I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

  Joss Stone

  Years, Biggie, Care

  "Joss Stone: 'I'm allowed to be me now'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 26, 2007.

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• If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Enough, Ifs

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

  Aldous Huxley

  Business, Writing, Mean

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• Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

  Teresa Wright

  Running, Children, Home

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