Good Enough Quotes - Page 32

• Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.

  Farrah Gray

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Legs

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• In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

  Jim Jefferies

  Book, People, Comedian

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

  Julia Cameron

  Perfection, Trying, Quests

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Penguin

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• I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Thinking, Worry, Never Good Enough

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• The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Mother, Children, Mirrors

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• You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

  Colin Farrell

  Yoga, Class, Finding Yourself

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Not Good Enough, Mind, May

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 28, 2015

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• The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

  Princess Diana

  Princess, Thinking, Gold

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• My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Team, Trying

  "Steve Jobs speaks out", archive.fortune.com.

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• I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

  Charlie Daniels

  Country, Attitude, Son

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• When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.

  River Phoenix

  Trying, Actors, Mold

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

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• My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you hear people say, "I was unhappy the whole time," that sounds ridiculous. I think this is a theme among people who seek fame, not just musicians. There are a lot of bitter, disappointed people.

  Mike Doughty

  Thinking, People, Unhappy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

  Catherine Tate

  Thinking, Advice, Locks

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• Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Eye

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Mean, Opposites

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• Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.

  Artie Shaw

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• I feel that instead of putting myself out in that light, I'd rather be on this side of the camera just to make sure that the movie, from my perspective as far as police procedures, is done properly. I got my daughters in it, that's good enough for me. Scott's got a way of talking me into things, and I told him I don't like the way he can talk me into stuff.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Daughter, Light, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Real, Feelings, Needs

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• In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Not Good Enough, Enough

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.88, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Enough, Remakes

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

  Jay McInerney

  Odds, Long, Might

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