Quotes About One Upping

#1. I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Hayley Williams

#2. Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Malcolm Forbes

#3. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

#4. It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

Damien Chazelle

#5. It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

Tim Winton

#6. It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

Deanna Petherbridge

#7. My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

Lela Rochon

#8. Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.

Helen Cresswell

#9. Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Alice Dreger

#10. Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you're not afraid of heights.

Gavin DeGraw

#11. Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

Samantha Stosur

#12. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#13. Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.

Bryant McGill

#14. A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H.L. Mencken

#15. The single most efficient change you can make isn't actually upping your daily word count, but eliminating the days where you are not writing.

Rachel Aaron

#16. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.

Donny Deutsch

#17. Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

Ian Bogost

#18. I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the goal was: I want to see if 100 people buy my pencils. I just kept upping the benchmarks.

David Rees

#19. To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands. - p. 342

Philip Roth

#20. I didn't realize upping our relationship to phone buddies would come with a boyfriend title. Does that mean if we ever meet in person, we'll have to get married?

Kelly Oram

#21. What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?

Lisa Papademetriou

#22. I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.

Erik Larson

#23. I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

Baltasar Kormakur

#24. Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

#25. If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

John Ruskin