Good Enough Quotes - Page 31

• I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

  Will Smith

  Husband, Father, Smart

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

  Garth Nix

  Trying, Done, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.77, Zondervan

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• She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. “He should take you to dinner.” To say that the mere thought horrified me would have been a grievous understatement. I threw up a little in my mouth then swallowed hard. I told Taft when I recovered, “Just please, for the love of God, find a girl good enough to take home to your mother. And do it soon.” “And stop dating skanks.

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason.

  Julian Gough

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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• Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

  Abbi Glines

  Needs, Want, Fine

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

  John Cassavetes

  Artist, Trying, Failing

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• But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Progress, Different

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• The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.

  William Murchison

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Heart, Not Good Enough

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• What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Desire, Too Good To Be True

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• If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

  Ann Druyan

  Heart, Enough, Ifs

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• I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

  Al Pacino

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

  Gerard Way

  Love You, Good Love, Heart

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Portraits, Paint, Used

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

  Albert Brooks

  Art, Laughter, Couple

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• I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.

  Antony Hegarty

  Artist, Thinking, Voice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you're good enough in your sport, you have the option to choose your sponsors. Sometimes you pass up a lot of money to support the people you like and the products you want to use but in the end it's worth it!

  Travis Pastrana

  Sports, People, Support

  Source: dirtaction.com.au

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• I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

  Michael Longley

  Hard Work, Years, Not Good Enough

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Single Mom, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.

  Warren Gatland

  Attitude, Hard Work, Player

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

  Christina Aguilera

  Eye, Criticism, Stranger

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk THE VOICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

  Stephen Leacock

  Not Good Enough, Facts, Enough

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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