Peaking Quotes:

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

- George McGovern

topic: Possibility, Peaking

You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.

- Roger Federer

topic: Crazy, Exhibitions, Peaking

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

- Tal Ben-Shahar

source: Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

topic: Journey, Climbing, Effort, Happy Inspirational, Enjoy It While It Lasts

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

- Erik Weihenmayer

topic: Goal, Balls, Flags, Peaking

I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And it sounds cynical because you guys are young and you're full with life. I want you to understand - this is it. You have nothing to look forward to because you're peaking. If you're not having fun now, kill yourself. I don't mean that in a bad way, just - it's not worth it to go forward.

- Greg Fitzsimmons

topic: Peaking, Not Worth It

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Real, Mean, Compassion, Mean Love, Nobody's Perfect

People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.

- Rainn Wilson

source: Source: mynorthwest.com

topic: Dream, Play, People, Dreams And Love, Peaking

As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.

- Jason Mraz

source: "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

topic: Connections, Want, Losing, True To Myself, Losing Myself

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

- Theodora Goss

topic: Dance, Believe, Writing, Writing Every Day, Practice Makes Perfect

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

- Keith Floyd

topic: Food, Artist, Color, Assembling, Squeezing

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

- Brandon Mull

source: Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

topic: Strong, Firsts, Faults, Wisdom And Experience, Peaking

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

- Siri Hustvedt

topic: Regret, Night, Facts, Peaking

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

- Richard Griffiths

topic: Careers, Strange, Awareness, Peaking

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

topic: Educational, Believe, School, Peaking

I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!

- Subb-an

topic: Light, Guy, Band, Peaking

Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.

- Matthew Simpson

topic: Heart, Men, People, Peaking

If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.

- Trip Hawkins

source: "Trip Hawkins On Apple". "Edge Online", August 2, 2011.

topic: Years, Two, Apples, Roman Empire, Peaking

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

- David Byrne

topic: Cheer, Real, Sadness, Humdrum, Peaking

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Mean, Winning, Hollywood, Peaking, Smoked Salmon