Top 24 Upping Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#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. 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
#5. Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?
Lisa Papademetriou
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
Aldous Huxley
#18. The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
Albert Einstein
#19. Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.
Joel Osteen
#20. We're not shallow people. Rather, we've just gotten used to relating on levels that avoid soul issues.
Kary Oberbrunner
#21. Happiness is not only how to make yourself happy! but it's also how to draw a smile on others face..
Abdulrahman Danbos
#22. Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
Famke Janssen
#23. Outside the door were the clear sounds of marching footsteps.
Douglas Adams
#24. Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
Bryant McGill
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