Top 1200 Good Enough Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

If it felt good, you didn't push hard enough. It's supposed to hurt like hell.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.

I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.

Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

I know my jiu-jitsu is good enough to beat the best guys in the world.

Once you have players you like and a good enough squad there's no need to spend money.

I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.

A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

That's the nature of the business. If you're not doing the job good enough then they're looking to replace you.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

Arsene Wenger gives youngsters opportunities, and if he thinks that you're good enough, he'll play you.

People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are always - either there's too much color or not enough color, either it's not conceptual enough or it's too conceptual. In other words, most criticism isn't what the viewer expected that it would do based on what they think you have done and that's good as far as I'm concerned.

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.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

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

I'm just gonna be myself and that's been good enough for me throughout my life.

When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.