#overachiever

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#good #hard #hell #i #kid

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again. ↗

— Venus Williams

#i #just #just do it #over #overachiever

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversational #exceeds #grasp #his #overachiever

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me. ↗

— John Legend

#busy #guess #high #high school #i

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#believer #bit #christian #everybody #fact

I was always an overachiever. ↗

— Donna Rice

#i #overachiever