Underachieve Quotes & Sayings

I could really underachieve if I just applied myself. — Jan Thomas

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve. — Jerzy Kosinski

Locker rooms, in Schwartz's experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic one. The locker room protected you when you were most vulnerable: just before a game, and just after (And halfway through, if the game was football) Before the game, you took off the uniform you wore to face the world and you put on the one you wore to face your opponent. In between you were naked in every way. After the game ended, you couldn't carry your game-time emotions out into the world - you'd be put in an asylum if you did - so you went underground and purged them. You yelled and threw things and pounded on your locker, in anguish or joy. You hugged your teammate, or bitched him out, or punched him in the face. Whatever happened, the locker room remained a haven. — Chad Harbach

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered — Jose Saramago

Simplicity is the key to beauty.
Clarity is the key to perfection. — David Nevue

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone. — Evangeline Lilly

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends. — George Muller

dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on — Judy Blume

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success. — Robert Kiyosaki

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace. — Richard Grasso

I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant. — Don DeLillo

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention. — Marilynne Robinson

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing. — Yash Chopra

Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy. — Sharon Salzberg

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention. — Trevor Moore

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson McCullers

So dream big daring dreams, and then underachieve a little bit each day. I recommend setting attainable daily goals that, when achieved, provide positive reinforcement to help you stay on the path to the big goal — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness. — Angela Carter

Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you? Who knows but God if he will put you before kings and leaders to speak the truth, redirecting the future of nations? Who knows when that small crack in the dam of our enemy's plans will give way and God's glory will truly cover the earth as the sea? Do not become distracted or discouraged by the death around you. Death must always give way when the life of Christ enters the picture. — Amy Layne Litzelman

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve — Simon Pegg

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing ... Bok is ... on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship. — George Leef