High Achieving Quotes

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

Being of Indian heritage is a challenge - and it's a blessing as well sometimes - because being good isn't good enough. You have to be exceptional to play different characters.

I was a real overachiever.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

It's good to have expectations, I believe. You want to come out and you want to compete. You want to do special things.

I am at my best when I am scoring.

I've always held myself to high standards.

My expectations for myself were really high.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

I like people who are achievers.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Everything I do is intended to be big.

When people suggest we like to 'dream big'... they're absolutely right.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.

I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it's kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that's the challenge.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.