Quotes About Overachievers

#1. I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Bell Hooks

#2. Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

Alexandra Robbins

#3. It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Alexandra Robbins

#4. Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

John Eliot

#5. I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.

Gregory Harrison

#6. If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

Ibn Rajab

#7. Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.

John Irving

#8. We all know what a big giant sword you have, I'm sure. No need for you to wave it in our faces yet again.

George R R Martin

#9. Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

Joel Salatin

#10. He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.

Tony Dungy

#11. For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Jim Backus

#13. Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

Massimo Vignelli

#14. Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

T.D. Jakes

#15. I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

Wallace Stegner

#16. Overachievers, here's some good and some bad news. The good news is, that you're smart, special, and you're raising the bar. The bad news is: very few people will like you.

Joan Marques

#17. What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

John Eliot

#18. I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.

Emily Tomko

#19. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

Moshe Dayan

#20. Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell.

Sandra Marton

#21. Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating.

Bobby Hoffman