Michelle Wolf Quotes

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

I don't play to be mediocre.

Set the bar high - do the best you possibly can.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

Demand excellence.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.

As a type-A woman, I always want more.

I'm always trying to stay above the rest, and that's by doing the extra work.

I'm extremely competitive, extremely ambitious, and always looking for ways to improve and move up, to do things better.

When you do something, you want to be the best.

I was a real overachiever.

I do think you can't be as good as the person next to you to play: you have to be better.

I set really high expectations.

If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

We tend to outdo ourselves.

Average is Your Enemy.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.