Good Enough Quotes - Page 30

• you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mind, Naked, Instruments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.181, Macmillan

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• To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

  Li Shan

  Heart, People, Chinese

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• For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

  Jeff Jarrett

  Believe, People, Explanation

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• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Editing

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Fighting, Together

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• Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Giving Up, Mad, Not Good Enough

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• I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

  Peyton Manning

  Fun, School, Player

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• One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

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• If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

  Glennon Melton

  Healing, Writing, Worry

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• Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Wall, Son

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• The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

  Judith Weir

  Danger, Accepting, Deadline

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

  Adele

  Enough, Ready, New Music

  "Greatest Billboard 200 Albums & Artists of All Time: Adele's '21' & The Beatles Are Tops" by Keith Caulfield, www.billboard.com. December 11, 2015.

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• A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she's impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn't it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dog, Mean, Tired

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• I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Loneliness, Twenties, Littles

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.59, Quirk Books

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• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

  Jo Nesbo

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried in her mind all the precious trappings of the castle she could think of -jewels, weapons, art-and she saw that the others must be doing the same. What did the Sacoridians possess that would be good enough for the Eletian prince? "My brother," Graelalea said, "requires many pounds of dark chocolate fudge and Dragon Droppings. We must visit the Master of Chocolate.

  Kristen Britain

  Art, Brother, Dark

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• Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Heart, Perfect, Tasks

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• After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Be Good, Austen, Ought

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.274, Dial Press

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• Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

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• You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Struggle, Body

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Brain

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

  David Luiz

  Confidence, Inspiration, Approval

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

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