J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"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."
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Not Good Enough
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Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"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."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary."
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough."
Elbert Guillory
Politician
"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."
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"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
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"We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to."
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"Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them."
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"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
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"I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices."
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"We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough."
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"I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that."
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"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."
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"A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman."
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"The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort."
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"I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over."
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"In art, 'good enough' is not good enough."
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"I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough."
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"There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world."
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"The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed."
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