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

People Humans Human Beings Organisation Overbearing Overachieving Overcompensating

Author:Guy Browning

“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.”

World Feelings Attitude Embrace Transformed Ambitious Aggression Dukes Hold Me Overachieving

Author:Christina Aguilera

“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.”

Men Trying Looks Kids Winning Roles Calm Annoying Contests Chill Always Trying Calm Down Overachieving

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“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.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“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.”

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Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Life Life Is Simple Inspiring Alive Achieve Simplicity Obvious Meaning Of Life Panic Plainness Obviousness Overachieving

Book:Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969

Source: Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969

“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”

Achieve Overachieving

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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Author:Bret Bielema