Top 100 Not Good Quotes
#1. When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.
Billy Corgan
#2. I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.
Beth Ditto
#3. I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.
Louise Hay
#4. It's not good to be bad, but it's good to be worse - that's life.
Debolina
#5. You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.
Kahlil Gibran
#6. And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Robert M. Pirsig
#8. This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!
Dr. Seuss
#9. The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
Edward T. Welch
#10. House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Chris Lowe
#11. The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
Oswald Chambers
#12. You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#13. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.
Scot McKnight
#14. I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#15. We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
Edward Felten
#16. I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.
Sean Penn
#17. I know it. I feel it. I want it. Loving you is so damn easy that it terrifies me. Not loving you, but the fear of losing it because I'm not good enough.
Lynetta Halat
#19. I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship beauty, -and there's the fifth commandment, you know.
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#20. We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.
William McDonough
#21. Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.
Matthew Weiner
#22. Oh boy. Too drunk to hold on to a whiskey and Coke and the word "pretty." That's not a combination with a positive outcome. Not good at all. That's the secret password that usually leaves me trying to find a ride home in the morning.
Laurie Notaro
#23. I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
Shawn Ashmore
#24. We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
Newton Gatambia
#25. I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.
David Hare
#26. Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.
M.F. Moonzajer
#28. Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.
Caio Terra
#29. My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
Rachel Platten
#30. I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.
Margot Robbie
#31. He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.
Spencer Johnson
#32. It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking
Sunday Adelaja
#33. I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
Clive Owen
#34. I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
Will Ferrell
#35. Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
Guy Kawasaki
#36. I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person ... It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?.
Liv Tyler
#37. Sometimes, by celebrating the evangelical heroes of the faith, we have inadvertently communicated something false: if it's not big and audacious and officially sanctioned, it's not good enough for God.
Sarah Bessey
#38. One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
Pat Oliphant
#39. Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go. (Works, 59)
Robert Murray McCheyne
#40. I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.
Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
Olivia Culpo
#42. It is not good to do too much at once. We have a saying. A man cannot walk on two different paths at the same time. It will crack his buttocks.
Tajewo Ole Ndaskoi
Suzanne Arruda
#43. I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson
#44. You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Irina Bors
#45. He left the tavern and began walking through the maze of buildings and cobblestone streets to find his way back to the palace. However, soon he found himself hopelessly lost. Ten . . . eleven . . . fifteen drinks. How many had he had? "Oh, Nic," he mumbled. "Not good. Not good at all.
Morgan Rhodes
#46. Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?
James Martin
#47. The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
Terry Goodkind
#48. Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more.
Andy Warhol
#49. As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
Lou Reed
#50. Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!
Erland Josephson
#51. Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon.
Adam Grant
#52. Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.
Tim Tebow
#53. Some Trumpsters asked me if it was really a problem that Trump doesn't have money to run commercials now. And I said he doesn't have the money, just doesn't have the money. "That's not good. He needs to be running commercials."
Rush Limbaugh
#54. If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
Jaggi Vasudev
#55. Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!
Samuel Johnson
#56. With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
Lynsey Addario
#57. It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'
Elizabeth Banks
#58. Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.
Guy Kawasaki
#59. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
Jennifer Donnelly
#60. Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
Ellsworth Huntington
#61. Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.
John Stuart Mill
#62. I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
Antony Sher
#63. I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?
El-P
#64. I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore
#65. I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.
Gillian Jacobs
#66. A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
Alain De Botton
#68. The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.
Rob Roberge
#69. There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.
Alanis Morissette
#70. If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.
David Hume
#71. How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
Philip Johnson
#73. I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
Calvin Harris
#74. I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.
Pink
#75. We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.
Sarah Steele
#76. A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species ...
John Stuart Mill
#77. Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.
Jon Jon Augustavo
#78. I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.
Crystal Evans
#79. It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#80. Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.
Marco Rubio
#81. The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
Rick Warren
#82. I'm sorry. I told you I'm not good with words."
Wrapping my arms around his neck, I pressed my lips to his and spoke against them, "You are perfect, Lev. Your words are honest and colored beautifully. You make me feel things I thought were lost to me. And I'm in danger of losing my heart to you.
Belle Aurora
#83. We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.
Paula McLain
#84. I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Channing Tatum
#85. I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.
Farrah Fawcett
#86. Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Bell Hooks
#87. Not good, not bad. I'm grateful for whatever I get.
Ken Doyle
#88. The 'good-enough marriage' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.
Aziz Ansari
#89. I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.
Courteney Cox
#90. I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
Donald O'Connor
#91. I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
Debra Winger
#92. The horsemen came closer.
Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.
Terry Pratchett
#93. Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
Samantha Power
#94. It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
Daniel Boulud
#95. I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
Evan Hunter
#96. Eating a lot on the plane is not good for jet lag.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#97. What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked.
"It's not good." Clover said.
"Then what is it?"
'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge.
"I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.
Obert Skye
#98. [Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.
Greg Gutfeld
#99. For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good" is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.
Frank E. Gaebelein
#100. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
Clive Barker
