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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star? -- Bret Bielema
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. -- 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. -- Christina Aguilera
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. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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. -- 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. -- Kate DiCamillo

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