Top 1200 Not Being Good Enough Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

Run from being good. Chase being great.

I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being - and enjoying it all. Anything you do will not be enough unless you feel fulfilled in just being. Usually we are not happy when we find doing whatever it is that we think we have to do. Doing creates expectations that your world and the people around you may or may not fit. The things we do disappear in time. We must learn to appreciate just being alive in the nowness of whatever situation we are in.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Shyama was very good looking and a good human being. She was warm and affectionate.

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

For other comics, it's about full-spectrum dominance, being on panel shows and having one-liners and being a good chat show guest and having a good seven minutes you can do on 'Live At The Apollo.' But I really think about these subsequent finished pieces, you know? And they don't always chop up well into one-liners and routines.

Being a good player doesn't necessarily make a good manager, that's for sure.

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.