Plateaus Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• History knows no resting places and no plateaus

  Henry A. Kissinger

  History, Historical, Knows

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• 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

  Men, Light, Oasis

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• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With 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

  Positive, Attitude, Failure

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

  Matthew Hayden

  Greatness, Long, Excellence

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• 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

  Drawing, Mountain, Details

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• After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Country, Land

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• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  Irving Fisher

  Funny, Depression, Money

  "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.

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• 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

  Rocks, Rivers, Landscape

  Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875). “Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution”, p.55

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• 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

  Home, Lakes, Mountain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Moving, Higher Ground, Earth

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• 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

  Years, San Francisco, Community

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• A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Inspirational, Freedom, Philosophy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black

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• 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

  Morning, Ice Cream, Letters

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• 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

  Down And

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

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Feet, Mexico

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27

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

  Julian Sands

  Maturity, Actors, Stuck

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's creation, and thus is always going beyond what went before-that leaps, not crawls, to new plateaus of truth, only to leap again, dying and being reborn with each new quantum lurch, often stumbling and bruising its metaphyscical knees, yet always getting right back up and jumping yet again.

  Ken Wilber

  Jumping, Dying, Knees

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Gone, Incentives, Spirit

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• 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

  New York, Cities, Different

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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