Overachieving Quotes

• People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

  Guy Browning

  People, Overbearing, Overcompensating

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• I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kids, Men, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Achieve

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Simple

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.37, New World Library

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• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

  Bret Bielema

  Stars, Underachieving

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• I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Kids, Dark

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

  Christina Aguilera

  Attitude, Feelings, Ambitious

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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