quotes 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 -
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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 LuhrmannSource : "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.
-- Graham Cooke -
Better than nothing is not good enough for you!
-- Greg Behrendt -
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The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.
-- Harriet Martineau -
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
-- J. Cole -
We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?
-- James Altucher -
I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
-- Jennifer BealsSource : "City's Best" Interview, citysbest.com, February 4, 2011.
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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 -
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
-- John Galsworthy -
It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
-- John Robert Seeley -
We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
-- Jonathan Ive -
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If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
-- Jonathan Ive -
For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.
-- Ken Weber -
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
-- Kevin Bacon -
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it...
-- Lauren Mackler -
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I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
-- Leslie Caron -
Good is not good enough when better is expected
-- Lou Lamoriello -
Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.
-- Luis Tiant -
She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.
-- Lynsay SandsSource : Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.19, Harlequin
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
-- Mackenzie AstinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.
-- Michael Bassey -
It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.
-- Monty Roberts -
When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough.
-- Nick Vujicic -
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It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
-- Ninette de Valois -
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
-- Norman Douglas -
Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.
-- Pauline Kael -
It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.
-- Perry MillerSource : "The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century".
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Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.
-- Renee Olstead -
We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.
-- Rhonda Britten -
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
-- Russell Crowe -
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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.
-- Sally Field -
I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
-- Shawn AshmoreSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
-- Stan Wawrinka -
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
-- Stephen Sondheim -
Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.
-- Steven Gerrard -
If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.
-- Thomas G. Stemberg -
When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.
-- Toni Gonzaga -
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Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.
-- Toni MorrisonSource : FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2011
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People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.
-- Travie McCoySource : Source: www.complex.com
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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.
-- Walt Kelly -
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
-- Will Champion -
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My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
-- Wolf Blitzer -
There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I'm not good enough and that I don't deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required. The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.
-- Aja Naomi KingSource : Source: www.elle.com
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I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
-- Alex O'Loughlin -
No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough. And I'm thinking: This is because my content makes people uncomfortable. It's a way for people to not talk about the content.
-- Anna BillerSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.
-- Calum Hood -
An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
-- David J. AndersonSource : "Kanban Pioneer". Interview with Leonardo Campos, Rafael Buzon, Eric Fer and Anselmo Martelini, www.infoq.com. March 16, 2013.
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Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something.
-- Idris KhanSource : "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.
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I've had a tremendous career and I get more phone calls from people who've been on 'X Factor' asking how they get on the ships. The ships are a very lucrative job for any singer and I would advise any singer to go and work on them and try it for a while. If you are not good enough, you will not get on.
-- Jane McDonaldSource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.
-- Jussie SmollettSource : Source: collider.com
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I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.
-- Kiese LaymonSource : Source: therumpus.net
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If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
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Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.
-- Steve Howey -
We all suffer from anxiety at one stage or another, we all worry, and we all feel like we're not good enough - especially in our society where we're under pressure from social media. It's hugely important now to discuss and be open about how we're feeling.
-- The Last Skeptik -
I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better" is not good enough - it's not. Especially when "better" still means my life is at risk.
-- Titus Kaphar -
All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.
-- Bradford Winters -
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No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.
-- Mark Donohue -
Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.
-- Anita SarkeesianSource : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.
-- Michael LongleySource : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
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Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.
-- Brendon Burchard -
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America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do that at work, and they only have two weeks' maternity leave. I'm very lucky that I get to pick and choose. And it helps that all my agents are women, and very protective of me. But for other working mothers here, support from their employers is not good enough. It shouldn't even be an issue. It's really important to be able to raise your kid without a fear of losing your job.
-- Robyn LawleySource : Source: www.elle.com
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It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.
-- Rosario CastellanosSource : Rosario Castellanos (2010). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama”, p.356, University of Texas Press
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When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.
-- Gale Anne HurdSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?
-- James Corden -