Good Enough Quotes - Page 37

• Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

  Greg Behrendt

  Not Good Enough, Enough

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Pain, Practice, Not Good Enough

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• A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Work, Not Good Enough

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• We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, Smart, Blessing

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Perfection, Enough, Happens

  Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti (2015). “Zeroes”, p.566, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Success, Mother, Play

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• Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

  Beth Revis

  Fear, Reason, Enough

  Beth Revis (2012). “A Million Suns: An Across the Universe Novel”, p.164, Penguin

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• She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.

  Tommy Ramone

  Rocks, Ideas, Missing

  Ramones Facebook page, www.facebook.com. 1978.

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. 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

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

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

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• Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Home, Made

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• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  Charlotte Green

  Sadness, New Relationship, Men

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• The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Texas, Taught

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• Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mediocrity, Settling

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Grateful, Tough Times, Should

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• People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.

  Joel Osteen

  Mistake, People, Not Good Enough

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• It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

  Elle Macpherson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Vanity

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• Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will no longer have to pretend to be someone you're not. You will no longer have to prove you're good enough. When you embrace your shadow you will no longer have to life in fear. Find the gifts of your shadow and you will finally revel in all the glory of your true self. Then you will have the freedom to create the life you have always desired.

  Debbie Ford

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Self

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• I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

  Brigham Young

  Country, Angel, Men

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• As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

  John Millington Synge

  Children, Writing, Men

  Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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• Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

  Steven Gerrard

  Disappointment, Not Good Enough, Massive

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• We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

  Thomas Beecham

  Musical, Enough, Be Good

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• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Ed McBain

  Real, Media, Ideas

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