Underachieving Quotes

• [Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

  Conrad Black

  People, Policy

  Column by David Plotz, www.slate.com. August 31, 2001.

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• Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

  George Leef

  Book, College, Students

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

  Bret Bielema

  Stars, Overachieving

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• Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

  James E. Webb

  Beer, Cells, Drunk

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• Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

  Dav Pilkey

  Success, School, Mean

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• Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."

  Jaden Smith

  Song, Fire, Age

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• I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

  Andy Roddick

  People, Return, Used

  "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

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• All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

  Shane Warne

  Achieve, Coaches, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

  Donald Kagan

  College, Statistics, Today

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• We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?

  Ted Leonsis

  Team, Hockey, Player

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