Chris Pine

The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.

American Actor

Pope Paul VI

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Italian Clergyman

Michael Mann

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.

Director

John George Nicolay

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

American Writer

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

German Physicist

Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Indian Leader

Mary Cassatt

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

American Artist

Marcel Proust

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

French Author

Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Leader

Often used to indicate that something is barely enough, with no excess.

Context Matters

Implies completeness, but just to the minimum requirement.

Minimal Adequacy

Can suggest a modest or non-demanding attitude when used personally.

Humble Tone

Used when there's a concern that something may not be adequate.

Capacity Limit

Suggests that something can serve in place of something else.

Replacement Okay

Stresses that while needs are met, there's no surplus.

Just Enough

Denotes just meeting the qualifications, without exceeding them.

Qualified Minimum

Indicates that complexity or depth is not required.

Simplicity Sufficient

Implies adequacy for a particular task, nothing more.

Up to the Task

 But mortal guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender. In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods,

The Greek myth of Talos,...

 on which to hang our hats. But in life and death, things are rarely so neat, and I really came face to face with that in a follow-up experiment, where we were looking at how crows respond to dead crows in the absence of any kind of predator. And suffice it to say, we found that in these cases,

What crows teach us...

 that we could watch the supernova explosion break through the surface of the star. But we'd have to have our best telescopes focused on the right one at precisely the right time to get meaningful data. Suffice it to say, the odds of that happening are astronomically low.

How to detect a...

 and you force feed a ton of grain down its throat. More grain in a couple of weeks than it would ever get in a lifetime. Its liver expands by eight times. Suffice to say it's like -- it's not the prettiest picture of sustainable farming.

Dan Barber: A surprising...

 There are ten teams with two drivers per team. It's perhaps the most inaccessible sport in the world. Suffice to say, there are going to be so many people with dreams, talent and ambition to get there who will never be able to make it.

Esports, Virtual Formula...

 that suffice to explain all of us and everything we see. So it works. But not only that, if you think about how natural selection works, then it turns out that natural selection would only make sense in such a relational universe.

Lee Smolin: How science...

 the possibility of another world your customers don't love you give them more than just a solution to a problem uninspired employees purpose and perks do not suffice add some mystery some adventure to the mix now one can easily

Let’s put the romance...

 and oceans will turn to vapor. Too far, and the surface temperature will fall below the freezing point of water, causing the oceans to turn to ice. Fire or ice. For life as we know it, neither will suffice.

A needle in countless...

 And it means that expertise won't always suffice, because the system just keeps changing too fast. So what that means is that there's a huge amount in the world that kind of defies forecasting now.

The human skills we need...

 Well, I suppose there's nothing more that needs to be said on the subject. Silence will suffice then.

Suffice

Context Matters

Minimal Adequacy

Humble Tone

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