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Enough Quotes

Knowing what's enough, and what isn't.

This collection of enough quotes touches on the gap between clever ideas and real-world application in technical research, and the frustration of not being able to work fast enough to keep up with demand. One entry recalls a lucky, extended research collaboration. Related reflections continue in our Enough Time quotes.

I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only...

Quotes by Flume

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like...

Quotes by Forest Whitaker

I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of...

Quotes by Forest Whitaker

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Quotes by Flavor Flav

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

Quotes by Flea

He always scores the opening goal. Because it is one thing to score 30 goals with hat-tricks in easy wins, and another that 20 of those 30 goals are enough to win 1-0. Nobody does that as well as Diego...

Quotes by Filipe Luis

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

Quotes by Fiona Apple

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

Quotes by Fernando Alonso

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint...

Quotes by Felix Dennis

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Quotes by Felix Klein

I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.

Quotes by Felicia Day

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

Quotes by Felicia Day

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

Quotes by Fay Wray

The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

Quotes by Fay Wray

I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.

Quotes by Faye Marsay

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Quotes by Federica Montseny

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

Being included in just the U.S. Darts Masters was amazing enough but to now be able to go worldwide is something I could only dream of.

Quotes by Fallon Sherrock

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Quotes by Fannie Hurst

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "Enough" quotes cover?
These quotes use "enough" to talk about intellectual curiosity, creative frustration, scientific history, and looking back on a physically demanding career without regret.
Is there a quote about intellectual curiosity in cryptography?
Yes, one quote observes that people in cryptography have no deep concern with real-world application, adding, "They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about." For more on ambition and drive, see the Enough Time quotes page.
Is there a quote about creative frustration?
Yes, one quote admits some creative frustration: "I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really." For more on the challenges of getting things done, see the Enough Is Enough quotes page.
Is there a quote referencing scientific history?
Yes, one quote recalls that "the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle." For more historical reflections, see the Enough People quotes page.
Is there a quote looking back on a demanding career?
Yes, one quote looks back on a demanding career without regret: "I did it long enough that it's OK," after noting, "I would love to float for a minute on a shoe" now and then. For more on career satisfaction, see the Enough Money quotes page.

Another entry reflects on knowing when a long personal pursuit has run its course. See also Enough People quotes and Enough Money quotes.