- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does the man match the charge? To be the kind of man who would be accused of being so gross is guilt enough.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A global economy that is levering up, while unable to generate enough aggregate demand to achieve potential growth, is on a risky path.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten to jump into a lot of different things. And either being bold enough or dumb enough or naive enough to believe I could play them all, it's an exercise of self-delusion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020