Quotes and Sayings About 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 -
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
-- Amy Grant -
The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.
-- Archie Griffin -
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
-- Ashley Montagu -
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.
-- Bob Lefsetz -
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
-- Brené Brown -
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
-- Bryan Robson -
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.
-- Cam Gigandet -
Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.
-- Chris Brogan -
Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
-- Chris Klein -
I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.
-- Daisy Donovan -
.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
-- Danielle Steel -
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
-- Dee Dee Ramone -
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani -
When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.
-- Don Shula -
What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
-- Don Shula -
We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
-- Edward Felten -
We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that’s not a life. That’s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,
-- Elbert Guillory -
Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
-- Eric Weiner -
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
-- Floyd Abrams -
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
-- Franz Beckenbauer -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
-- Gary Oldman -
If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?
-- Gary Yourofsky -
It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
-- Genevieve Bell -
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
-- George Polya -
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
-- George Wald