Underachieved Quotes

#1. The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

John Bradshaw

#2. I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

Tom Hardy

#3. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Brian Eno

#4. Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

Italo Calvino

#5. 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

Caitlin Stasey

#6. It is no surprise that the people trying so frantically to extend our lifespans are almost entirely rich, white men. Men who have lived lives of systematic privilege, and believe that privilege should extend indefinitely.

Caitlin Doughty

#7. The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Patricia Schroeder

#8. Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience.

Marty Rubin

#9. Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.

Denise Bidot

#10. He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness
everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being.

Jack Kerouac

#11. =Doughnuts= 1 Egg 1 Cupful of Milk 1 and 1/3 Cupfuls of Sugar 2 Teaspoonfuls of Cream of Tartar 1 Teaspoonful of Soda Piece of Butter the Size of a Walnut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Cinnamon or Nutmeg Salt, and Flour enough to

Lydia Maria Gurney

#12. Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

Nicolas Roeg

#13. Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis.

Robert Herjavec

#14. You mean you prostituted yourself out to the masses? To draw them away? That was sweet.

Nichole Chase

#15. For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.

Yoseob

#16. There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.

George R R Martin

#17. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Mark Haddon