Top 11 Not The Best Quotes
#1. We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
Chuck Todd
#2. I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.
Rafael Nadal
#4. You were just too nice to tell me to buzz off."
"I did tell you to buzz off," he pointed out. "Several times."
"I'm not the best with feedback.
Cecily White
#5. Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
Sam Altman
#6. Ancient Egypt was okay. Drinks menu was limited. Not the best place to meet people. Reminded me a lot of the Internet in the sense that it was full of pictures of cats and people seemed pretty excited about them. Also lots of fun emoji. Still not sure what "Feather Squiggly Line Bird" means.
Alexandra Petri
#7. A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
Jack Ma
#8. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
Joseph Addison
#9. I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
Kaskade
#10. Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
Yuvraj Singh
#11. It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
Marcus Allen
#12. I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.
Anderson Silva
#13. I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food ... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.
Dita Von Teese
#14. Mike Tyson's a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.
Royce Gracie
#15. It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.
Jeb Bush
#16. You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best idea. Oh well, score another point for Darwinism, I suppose.
Gary Whitta
#17. ... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as a matter of course, and no one complaining much. As a species, not the best imaginable, but certainly the best, no, the most interesting there was.
Ian McEwan
#18. I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.
Amanda Palmer
#19. I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!
Gemma Arterton
#20. I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
Jeremy Miller
#21. I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
Joe Mantello
#22. I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
Daniel Johns
#23. The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
Ulysses S. Grant
#24. I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
Todd Solondz
#25. It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.
Margaret Cho
#26. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#27. Coffee or orange juice?"
"Water is fine."
His eyebrows went up.
"Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling.
Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?
Patricia Briggs
#28. We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!
Walter Wykes
#29. Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?
Matt Chandler
#31. Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
Rick Warren
#32. I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good ... Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno
#33. That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
William Shakespeare
#34. It's not the best plan ever, but it's the only one I've got.
Pittacus Lore
#35. Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?
Juliette Binoche
#36. We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is don't do it.
Billy Graham
#37. People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
Bette Midler
#38. Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."
Keli Goff
#39. To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
Chad Harbach
#40. Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.
Donald Young
#41. Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.
Frederick Schiller Faust
#42. I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure ... and I don't really have those qualities!
Jaime Murray
#43. We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!
David Weber
#44. War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#45. Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.
Bryce Harper
#46. I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.
Adam Pally
#47. Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.
Steven Yeun
#48. In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!
Ruth M. Leverton
#49. I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.
Lubos Motl
#50. I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
Joyce Carol Oates
#51. First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.
Nicholas Meyer
#52. My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#53. Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.
David B. Coe
#54. I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
John Benjamin Hickey
#55. If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
Seth Godin
#56. I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18
Jill Lepore
#57. I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver ... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.
Danica Patrick
#59. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
Brandon Flowers
#60. For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. Thomas Muller is not the best in the world. But he is the best in what he does
Jupp Heynckes
#62. The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
Karen Mills
#63. I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
Benmont Tench
#64. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonald
#65. I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
Kim Kardashian
#66. Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.
Sterling W. Sill
#67. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Steve Earle
#68. Passion means making the choice to do that for which we can make the greatest difference. It means saying no to opportunities that may be good but not the best. It means that the best path is not always the easiest path.
Thom S. Rainer
#69. Conformity and exclusion. If you're not the best or the
Cassia Leo
#70. Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.
Charles Stross
#71. Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
Kristin Hannah
#72. I didn't feel like waiting another month to tell you...
You're not the best goalie I know anymore, but your still my favorite.
Victoria Denault
#73. Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.
Zack W. Van
#74. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
#75. I'm not the best at this,' I said. 'I'm the best at... fighting... and like, robots... and killing people.' I paused. Wow, my resume sucked.
Steven Campbell
#76. I think sometimes girls look at Victoria's Secret models and think that they have to model themselves after that, but I really don't think that's the best; even though they are called 'models,' they're not the best people to model yourself after.
Rebel Wilson
#77. Fish are not the best authority on water.
Jane Yolen
#78. When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. I'm figuring out what I want by trial and error, and maybe that's not the best way, but it's all I've got. All I know is that I need to be my own person, someone shaped by my desire, not fear of disappointing the people who are supposed to love me.
Cora Carmack
#80. I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.
Erin O'Connor
#81. The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?
Joe Abercrombie
#82. I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur
#83. Sometimes directly asking for what you want is not the best way to achieve a desired result." As this story shows, good negotiation is a continual exploration of the realm of possibilities.
George H. Ross
#84. Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.
W.C. Fields
#85. ...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.
Love Professor - to Jennifer
Jennifer Cox
#86. Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.
Maureen Johnson
#87. I believe that Secretary Clinton has said, has acknowledged, that that was not the best way to handle her emails back then ... and has turned over all of the information and the emails and documents and now the server.
Julian Castro
#88. I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.
Lev Yashin
#89. He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.
Christian M. Frank
#90. Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#91. I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
Rachel Platten
#92. Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
#93. Jabari Parker is one of the best, if not the best, I've seen on tape. He's so hard to guard. You've got to guard from 23 feet. He can shoot it, or he can go one-on-one from there. He can post. He's so fast and long.
Steve Alford
#94. What's the biggest problem?
...
People show in the films not the best ideas which have been ever exposed to the world.
Deyth Banger
#95. I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.
Meek Mill
#96. Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.
Suze Orman
#97. I realize it's not the best timing-it's only been a month, but life isn't about waiting for perfect timing. If you're not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern
Lisa Wingate
#98. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.
Norman Mailer
#99. Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
Carne Ross
#100. When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best decision, to make an incrediable self-image is the best.
Deyth Banger
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