Peak Quotes
350 quotes by 296 authors
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Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard…
— Joichi Ito
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My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by…
— Unknown Author
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Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine…
— Steve Almond
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
— Eberhard Weber
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted…
— George Bird Grinnell
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Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.
— Octavian Paler
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Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty…
— Stefan Petrucha
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The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low…
— Heinrich Harrer
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;…
— Berton Braley
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Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak…
— Tarthang Tulku
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And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a…
— Duane G. Carey
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact,…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any…
— Leslie Stephen
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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers…
— William Raspberry
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Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant…
— Unknown Author
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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases…
— Warren Buffett
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This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity…
— Rajneesh
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