Top 1200 Good Enough Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

There will never be enough thanks, never enough words nor thoughts high or deep enough to adequately convey His worth. I don't know how to give back to the Lord what He deserves other than to just offer Him my life and every part of me.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

Having toured a lot really influences some of the decisions you make in the studio - is this part anthemic enough for people to want to sing to it at a show? is this part dynamic enough? Is this drum beat 'arena' enough? You think about it a lot when you are creating, for sure.

And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.

I know that one day I won't be good enough to play baseball anymore. But as long as I have an opportunity to, I want to keep fighting.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I try not to focus too much on my appearance. As long as I'm being healthy, that's good enough for me.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.

As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

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.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

For me, it's all about taking things a step at a time, proving I'm good enough and on the right path.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.

With some things, karma is good enough. Lessons come back in different ways, you know what I mean?

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

You go through slumps. The shot feels good in practice and looks good and for whatever reason in the game, they're in and out. Sometimes it gets frustrating, but for me, I've played in the league long enough to know you just have to put in the work in practice and shoot with confidence, shoot your way out of it.

I'm not good-looking enough, and I don't have the personality it takes to play myself like the big box-office stars.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Football has never been about young or old players - it is about good or bad players. If you're 13 or 31 and good enough, you're not too young or old.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.