Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

British Philosopher

Edmund Hillary

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

New Zealander Explorer

Steven Burd

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

American Businessman

P. J. Tucker

I don't know anybody that buys more shoes on eBay than me. I like eBay because I can always find rare gems in my size. I always have upwards of 40 sneakers in my cart at any given time.

American Basketball Player

John Mackey

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

Francis Ford Coppola

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

American Director

Karen Salmansohn

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

American Author

Queen Elizabeth II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

English Royalty

Drew Houston

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Swiss Psychologist

Use 'upward' when describing someone or something physically moving higher.

Physical Movement

'Upward' can express a focus or attention directed above where you are.

Directional Focus

Use 'upward' as an adjective to describe a positive trend or increase.

Trend Description

In professional contexts, 'upward' often refers to career progression.

Career Advancement

Use 'upward' to specify the precise direction of an action within a space.

Direction Precision

'Upward' can be used metaphorically to mean improvement or growth.

Figurative Speech

Use 'upward' to describe increases in numbers or measurements.

Statistical Increases

'Upward' is commonly used with financial or economic measurements.

Economic Context

 There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward, shifting my weight back and forth between the small smears. But then I reached a foothold that I didn't quite trust.

How I climbed a...

 Sure, that's easy. The ball will move upward until it gets to some highest point, then it will come back down and land in your hand again. Of course, that's what happens, and you know this because you have witnessed events like this countless times. You've been observing the physics of everyday phenomena your entire life.

What can Schrödinger's...

 pulled himself up and scurried upwards. He was free climbing without ropes or a harness, one misstep meant death. But up he went, and when he reached the peak, he swayed and leapt across the gap of space onto a branch of the target tree and into a world never seen before. His buddy Marwood followed him up,

What's hidden among the...

 If we followed our dharma and did our proper duty in our past life, we get good karma, which sends our soul upward in the social scale. Our rebirth into the next life is thus determined by what we do in this one. The wheel of rebirths is called samsara. It's possible for a very holy person

The five major world...

 majority of the population fifty-three percent or so the population that they're more upwardly mobile than any of the other population groups and that they're profoundly digital write my thesis being more digital in fact that the footmen the folks in that luxury

Rethinking Brazil’s...

 as everything else on Earth. Clouds, for example, do not float, but fall slowly under the influence of gravity. Some of them stay aloft due to upward convection from the sun-heated ground, but most are in a state of slow, balletic descent.

How did clouds get their...

 through the ocean displacing enormous quantities of water with the upward motion a series of waves expands in all directions in deep water these waves travel fast up to five hundred miles an hour but only reach a height of a few

Rare Video: Japan...

 and whitebarks' branches all sweep upwards with the cones at the very ends, so they can offer them to the nutcrackers as they fly by. That's a Two species cooperating to help each other for the benefit of all.

Symbiosis: A surprising...

 the deep ocean currents far below the surface they collide with the islands flanks and are deflected upwards bringing with them from the depths a rich soup of nutrients

The Blue Planet...

 upwards bringing with them from the depths a rich soup of nutrients such upwellings attract great concentrations of life

Upward

Towards a higher position or level.

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Moving or pointing towards a higher position.

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From a lower to a higher position.

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Increasing or getting more.

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