Quotes About Plateaus

#1. 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

#2. In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Bruce Lee

#3. There are no limits, only plateaus.

Sam A. Patel

#4. We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

Jack H. Goaslind

#5. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.

Joshua Foer

#6. Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Faith Baldwin

#7. I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.

Robin Gerber

#8. 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

#9. History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Henry Kissinger

#10. 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

#11. San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world

Duke Ellington

#12. Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.

Terry Tempest Williams

#13. Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt, but I didn't mind.

Josh Waitzkin

#14. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

John Wesley Powell

#16. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ----- Bruce Lee

Patrick James Ryan

#17. They say there's a certain point where your rage plateaus and you can't get any angrier instead everything inside goes cold that you feel very very calm.

Lisa Mantchev

#18. Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

Fred Funk

#19. I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Edward E. Barnard

#20. High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

Derek Drouin

#21. Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

Chris Carmack

#22. Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Matthew Hayden

#23. If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

#24. Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Friedrich Schiller

#25. The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

Benjamin Carson

#26. You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Bryant McGill

#27. If you don't write, then read.

Sylvia L'Namira

#28. Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it.

B.A. Gabrielle

#29. When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.

Banana Yoshimoto

#30. The intensity of her pleasure at this compliment surprised her, and she dropped her eyes. I but wear the only dress I own, and I misdoubt whether mine hair be well-combed even now.

Werner A. Lind

#31. Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Cossman

#32. In any "age" there are always waves, the first gold rush where there are many players, then the crowning of a few kings where everything converges to a few places, and the third wave where the market is stable enough to accommodate several small players who serve particular niches.

Anonymous

#33. There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

#34. AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

Sam Altman