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- 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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, 'Black Mirror' likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn't mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020