Plateau Quotes

#1. In comparison, Mount Everest, though 29,029 feet above sea level, rests on the 17,000-foot-high Tibetan plateau and rises just 12,000 feet from base to summit. A similar plateau boosts the Andes; without those geological booster seats, those peaks all would lie in Denali's shadow.

Andy Hall

#2. Like most things, sex got better with age until one hit a certain plateau, and then it was like breakfast, unlikely to change unless one ran out of milk and was forced to improvise.

Emma Straub

#3. One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Josephine Preston Peabody

#4. All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.

Frederick Lenz

#5. If a man seeks you to understand him; listen closely, for what is really going on is nothing more that you manifesting your desire to seek yourself on a plateau of awareness that is not tangible

Jeremy Aldana

#6. Yeah, I'm going to go back (after hitting his 500th home run, but commenting on reaching the 3,000 hit plateau) to my Punch-and-Judy days, hit the ball the other way, start bunting the ball a little bit.

Rafael Palmeiro

#7. An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.

Frederick Lenz

#8. He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Jess Walter

#9. Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

Tom Udall

#10. ...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

Rona Jaffe

#11. Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean ... You win some, you lose some ...

Brendan Fraser

#12. You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

Jeffrey Lurie

#13. The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

Irving Fisher

#14. That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

William J. Clinton

#15. Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher

#16. We stopped when we reached a plateau near the peak of the mountain and perhaps it was delirium, but I think I saw God for the first time.

Jamie Hoang

#17. The plateau? she silently demanded of Ty. Why did you turn her loose? She could lead

Elizabeth Lowell

#18. Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.

Chalene Johnson

#19. Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

Neil Strauss

#20. Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Andrew Shue

#21. Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

Frederick Lenz

#22. I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

Mark McGwire

#23. Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.

Iain M. Banks

#25. Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Anne McKevitt

#26. In mathematics, there's a name for this short-term greed, the process of always choosing the option that gives you instant gratification. It's called the "greedy algorithm," and following it almost always leads to a plateau.

Bob Sullivan

#27. The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

Randy Wayne White

#28. I don't think I have reached a plateau. I have just reached the level where I am today. But I need to go above it.

David Beckham

#29. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W. Clement Stone

#30. As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Julian Sands

#31. I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.

Neil Peart

#32. The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth

Dan Rather

#33. There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

Rem Koolhaas

#34. I don't know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can't pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her visibly age beyond the days when she was with Peter. I like to think her growing stopped the day they were on the plateau, watching the horses.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#35. When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.

Nido R. Qubein

#36. Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Tracey Emin

#37. When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

Erykah Badu

#38. The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

Ken Wilber

#39. We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."

Ann Coulter

#40. Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Emanuel Celler

#41. I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

Stewart Udall

#42. Khafre and Menkaure were built in reference to Khufu and they served its main function on the Giza Plateau as a whole rather than being intrinsically of a greater value each on its own.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#43. Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

John Gardiner

#44. I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

Bill Murray

#45. Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#46. Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more ...

Tracey Emin

#47. Teller stared up at him. "What transforms a man into a monster, Tarkin?"
"Monster? That's a point of view, is it not? I will say this much: This place, this plateau is what made me.

James Luceno

#48. When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Joyce Meyer

#49. 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

Aaron Paul

#50. With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

Mike Tindall

#51. Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies

Gary Rohrmayer

#52. This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.

Francis Chan

#53. At first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain changed from blue to black and left nothing.

Ally Condie

#54. [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

Janet Leigh

#55. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

George Leonard

#56. Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

Ellison Onizuka

#57. The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Octavio Paz

#58. Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

David Lereah

#59. Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result.

Gillian Flynn

#60. Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

Suzanne Somers

#61. He had crashed through the barrier. He had stopped worrying and started relaxing. He was up on that plateau where you just did whatever needed doing. I knew that place. I lived there.

Lee Child

#62. Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

Roopleen

#63. At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change.

J.R. Rim

#64. There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.

Aimee Byrd

#65. You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Time has scratched its mark all over the Giza Plateau!

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#67. I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.

Condoleezza Rice

#68. As a task becomes automated, the parts of the brain involved in conscious reasoning become less active and other parts of the brain take over. You could call it the "OK plateau," the point at which you decide you're OK with how good you are at something, turn on autopilot, and stop improving.

Joshua Foer

#69. The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#70. Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.

Cat Clarke

#71. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Nigel Kennedy

#72. They alighted on a little plateau covered in purple and orange wildflowers, its grasses hissing in the wind. Abraxos was practically grunting with joy, and Manon, her exhaustion as heavy as the red cloak she wore, didn't bother to reprimand him.

Sarah J. Maas

#73. It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

J Harlen Bretz

#74. When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.

Tony Robbins

#75. You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Sarah Vowell

#76. Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Octavio Paz

#77. Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#78. I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

SonReal

#79. If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Jeff Beck

#80. Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods.

Chris Matakas