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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.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

Quotes by Edwin Louis Cole

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Quotes by Edward T. Hall

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two...

Quotes by Edward Zwick

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Quotes by Edward M. Lerner

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

Quotes by Edward Kitsis

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Quotes by Edward Klein

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay...

Quotes by Edward Felten

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?

Quotes by Edward Conard

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Quotes by Eduardo Chillida

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of...

Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Quotes by Edward Abbey

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Quotes by Edward Abbey

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's...

Quotes by Edward Albert

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

Quotes by Eduard Shevardnadze

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

Quotes by Eduard Shevardnadze

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

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.