Quotes About Underachieving

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical.

William Giraldi

#4. I was living alone before, Campbell, if that's what you're asking." She looks at me over the edge of her wine glass. "How about you?"
"I have six wives, fifteen children, and an assortment of sheep."
Her lips curve. "People like you always make me feel like I'm underachieving.

Jodi Picoult

#5. An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

Conrad Black

#6. We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Phil Crosby

#7. 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

#8. Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

Bret Bielema

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Blaise Pascal

#12. Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot."
Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters."
Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

John Green

#13. Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Don Baylor

#14. Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

John Brockman

#15. The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Identify the purpose of your life and destination and work out a plan to achieve your goal

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Emma had always had a different way of processing the world and her place in it. I knew pretty much from the beginning that she was going to be a challenge to understand. But that was one of the things that drew me to her. I wanted to understand, to figure her out.

Rebecca Donovan

#18. But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.

Lauren Wolk