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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. -- Paul Weyrich
My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. -- Ziggy Marley
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? -- Ezra Taft Benson
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. -- J. Irwin Miller
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays. -- Kate Christensen
It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen. -- Johnny Knoxville
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. -- John Clayton
Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like. -- Jewel
Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side. -- Graham Elliot
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. -- Frank B. Kellogg
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse. -- Alexandra Adornetto
We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest! -- Jan de Bont
We tend to outdo ourselves. -- Jim Gaffigan
It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity. -- Jerold Panas
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. -- Francois de Malherbe
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations. -- Drew Goddard
It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them. -- Doug Larson
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. -- Philip Roth
I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself. -- Tony Parker
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. -- Mark Hart
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Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society. -- Alexander Zinoviev
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism. -- Swami Vivekananda
I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine. -- Nas
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. -- Anton Chekhov
You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn't even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again. -- Rick James
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn. -- Miles Davis
Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even -- J. Robbins
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. -- William Hazlitt

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