Overachievement Culture Quotes & Sayings

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer — John D. Voelker

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal ... whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge. — Steven Callahan

And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds. — Esai Morales

The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force. — Louis Lingg

Leanness of body and soul may go together. — John Owen

For the ego exists in an abstract sense alone, being an abstraction from memory, somewhat like the illusory circle of fire made by a whirling torch. We can, for example, imagine the path of a bird through the sky as a distinct line which it has taken. But this line is as abstract as a line of latitude. In concrete reality, the bird left no line, and, similarly, the past from which our ego is abstracted has entirely disappeared. Thus any attempt to cling to the ego or to make it an effective source of action is doomed to frustration. — Alan W. Watts

Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love. — L.A. Reid

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd. — Ross Bleckner

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence. — Gopichand Lagadapati

Even though this seems rather plain, we Christians can easily become confused about what sanctification is. Instead of emphasizing its connection to the Lord and his Word, we can make it merely about certain external behaviors and mind-sets, select methods and practices. — Kevin DeYoung