Enough Quotes

• I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Enough

• If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Think
  • Enough
  • Doorstep

• For the first time there was constructed with this machine locomotive engine a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.

  

  Carl Ludwig
  • Life
  • Science
  • Acting

• I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?

  

  Monty Hall
  • Enough
  • Had
  • Episodes

• The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.

  

  Charles Landry
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Lost
  • Enough

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Technology

• The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Enough

• No man is good enough to be another's master.

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Masters

• I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • People
  • Music
  • 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.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Materials

• If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

  

  Erik Wemple
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Failing

• Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

  

  Francis Spufford
  • People
  • Real
  • Attractive

• Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Decision
  • Hurt
  • Chance

• You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Lines

• If you see a market that has slow and steady growth long enough, you'll start to front-run it, and that slow and steady growth will start turning into steeper growth, and that will accelerate the process.

  

  Erik Voorhees
  • Process
  • Steady
  • Accelerate

• I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Trying
  • Christian
  • Argument

• Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Jobs
  • Made
  • Anticipation

• Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Hair
  • Eye
  • Feathers

• Food should flirt with the palette. If the food doesn't flirt with your palette, then it's not fun enough.

  

  Ranveer Brar
  • Enough
  • Should
  • Palette

• Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am holding this moment up to the light and saying, "Wow, will you look at that?"

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  

  Noah Lukeman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity
  • Aim

• Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Said
  • Deserve
  • Ashes

• If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

  

  George Sarton
  • World
  • Soul
  • Past

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