Peak Quotes

350 Peak quotes by 296 unique authors

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring… — James R. Schlesinger
You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was… — Jim Courier
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed.… — Julian Coolidge
That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to… — Jack Lovelock
Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through… — F. David Peat
All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when… — Rashad Evans
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! — Rajneesh
Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere… — Unknown Author
My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of… — Unknown Author
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already… — William J. Clinton
Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your… — Carol Browner
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and… — Viswanathan Anand
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live… — Yukio Mishima
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the… — Robert Jastrow
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding… — Gordon Campbell
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. — Brian Tracy
The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective,… — Jane Wagner
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the… — Sara Paretsky
They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. — Lisa Jewell
This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Even at my peak, I never went too over the top. — Pauly Shore
I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and… — Tom Courtenay
The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually… — Helen Mirren
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. — Vincent Gallo
Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. — Manu Bennett

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