Top 171 Peak Quotes

I think there are people who think ‘high school was the peak of my life,’ and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it’s normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.

Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

During the peak of my career, I used to pick the ball as soon it was released from the bowler’s hands. And I hit the ball through the line.

We’re at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren’t going to make it.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you’re going to go down.

The 14-8,000-meter-peaks-in-six-months project was something nobody could imagine was ever possible. It’s tough just to climb one 8,000-meter peak, let alone 14 in such a short period of time.

I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.

I don’t need to tell any one of you guys that I can do what I can do. I’ll just show it to you guys, and if you want a little sneak peak, come watch me work out. That’s how I do my thing.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

Donald Trump’s interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there’s extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev’s efforts to charm the American public.

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we’re playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it’s over. We’ve really paced ourselves.

Above all, Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai – that teeming ‘maximum city’, with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success – is his brush.

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike’s Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

I think sometime during the peak of ‘Whiskey Glasses’ is when I realized: ‘Man, this is really starting to happen. People are not not just singing these singles, they’re singing every song on my album and really invested in what I’m doing.’

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

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 flying career.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

‘Fill Me In’ went to number one at the same time Destiny’s Child released ‘Say My Name.’ Having a number one over Destiny’s Child at their peak was just madness to me.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I’m still a promising actor. It’s better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that’s kept me young. I haven’t gotten to any peak yet.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak – the highest I can be as an artist – I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America’s net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to ‘peak’ its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.

Outlook came at a time when India Today was at its peak and on its way to becoming a sarkari magazine. At the time, we were in college, and all moved from IT to Outlook. However, over the years, my reading of the magazine has gone down greatly.

It’s just kind of ironic with how I came into the NBA with all the expectations. You would’ve thought coming in the way I did that my career would last long. You’d think I’d have my more peak years in the beginning or middle. Mine just came a little later.

When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% of landlines. They said the quality wasn’t good enough. Clearly that was improved. I think you’ll find a similar thing in solar.

We have a show very early on called ‘Slap Bang’ on a Saturday night and it didn’t work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can’t just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they’re at the peak of their value. That’s not a formula for long-term success.

Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It’s the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began – in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 – employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.

More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it?

So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die – those who go against our movement.

From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.

For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I’m constantly on the comeback trail.

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There’s such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it – Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

NXT in my head is something I’m trying to help build, get it to its peak. I will do whatever I have to: I will strap NXT to my back and carry it up a cliff if I have to.

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

There are two things that I really love; vintage clothing and books. Mash the two together and I pretty much peak on personal joy levels.

The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not – something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves – stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility – that was the biggest barrier we had to break.

The Peak District is an insanely beautiful location to work in, the views are just wonderful.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

I have been a wrestler now for 12 years, and now I am reaching this peak at the top of the mountain – WrestleMania.

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Great performers – in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field – have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete… they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

When I did ‘Naanum Rowdy Thaan’ with Nayanthara, she was in the peak of her career – I was apprehensive about her willingness to act with me.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.

I’ll always remember listening to Mark Radcliffe playing Sonic Youth. I felt this instant connection, it offered me a peak behind a curtain into this world that I’d never experienced. I wanted to be part of it.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you’re at your peak, right? I think that’s encouraging us to keep going out on the road – to maximize the playing at the moment.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you’ve got to come down from that peak.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

When I was running as an athlete, I’d be looking at my heart rate, monitoring when it started to peak, when it plateaued. I’d make a note of the oxygen debt in my body and would always be working to a specific time.

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We’ve been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It’s helping change people’s lives, and I’ve had lots of wonderful letters about it.

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I’ve never gone club-hopping. I’ve never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You’ve got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

In sports, you always want to improve. You don’t stop until you reach your peak.

I have run two Olympic ‘A’ standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

I have my company, Elite Himalayan Adventures, which provides a platform for those who seek to push their limits on extreme adventures, whether that be Everest and Lhotse in Nepal, or K2 and Broad Peak in Pakistan.

I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I’m 65 or 70. I don’t want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I’m holding back anything, but there’s a bunch of junk I don’t know.

My first ‘Tonight Show’ was just one of those things – I mean this seriously – a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first ‘Tonight Show’: Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It’s like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: ‘Mom, I know people are saying you’re doing stuff that’s cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.’ Thanks for that.

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there; that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn’t even think about my weight – but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am.

‘The Disaster Artist’ book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there’s something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I’m good to go.

I never want to restrict myself and say I’m at my ultimate peak, I’m always looking to take myself to a higher level.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.

When we’re in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we’re desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don’t know how to run very well.

Sometimes when you’ve reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences… I’d always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile – upward and downward – at the peak of a crisis.

And it’s interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right – they were just wrong in time.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process – in dismissal.

In terms of experience, I am a much more evolved person than I was at my peak as a star.

The economy has barely recovered from the so-called ‘Great Recession’, with a 2 percent annual rate of growth since mid-2009. Peak worker wages, business investment, and productivity all occurred around the year 2000.

I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back.

I summited four mountains – Kangchenjunga, Makalu, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I – in one push. I didn’t camp anywhere. Just went boom, summit, brother.

When I’ve trained as hard as I possibly can through training camp and I come to the end, where my body is worn out and I’m tired, I know I’m ready to peak.

On ‘American Top 40’ the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.

You’ve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you’re involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don’t know what’s going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she’s walking over. It just amused me.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

A male athlete’s peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

Constant tension should be applied to the last five reps of every working set, meaning, do the first 5-6 reps normal tempo, and the last few reps should be held for at least two seconds at the peak of the contraction. This allows your muscles to have more time under tension, and you work different muscle fibers.

In perfect conditions, with a championship mindset and ready to peak, anything is possible.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time’s going to come when you go back down.

New Year’s Eve to Valentine’s Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine’s Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year’s resolutions: health, career and money, and love.

I don’t know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

I’m not at my physical peak, but if I can still beat guys, many of whom were born after I won my first tournament, that’s a great accomplishment.

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

But I think it’s a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That’s when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.

A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.

There’s a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhaps we are at peak Valley.

From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season.

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

Don’t peak in high school.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn’t always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company’s core business.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There’s no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It’s a high-wire act. That excites me.

It’s better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I’ll always hear a song I don’t like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It’s always difficult for me to listen.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

I think I’m realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women’s side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I’m young, fit, and healthy. I don’t want to waste any time.

Hard things make me happy. You get upset, but you mature and improve: the quicker you reach your best level, the longer you stay there. They say players peak at 28; I wanted to be there at 22, 23.

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

It’s fun leading this offense. I don’t think we’ve hit our peak.

I can’t putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can’t remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, ‘To which ocean does it break?’

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I will never close the door to the national team on anyone, but you also have to remember that in modern football, only players who are in peak physical condition can make the most of their technical abilities.

When people say, ‘Your music was the music of the Seventies,’ I say, ‘So was discoteque.’ The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre – they were all alive.

It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard.

At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can’t get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.

What we get paid to do is peak at the world championships and Olympics.

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study ‘just in time’ manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don’t have a lot of growth.

There’s always going to be comparisons, and that’s unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.

A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it’s all gone in the wrong direction.

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they’re living off their passions.

I want to be Gary Barlow and peak when I’m 40. That’s my plan – he’s who I’m modeling myself on. Most people are completely beautiful when they’re young, and then there’s always a point when they get older where they say: ‘Oh, what happened?!’

One thing is having skated five of the best races I’ve probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody’s career.

You’re just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

I’m 28, your career is a long time. We’re not tennis players or football players. I’m just about reaching what should be my peak year.

I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long’s Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley – grapple with it that way – but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

I’m definitely on the incline to a peak.

Only when you’re in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you’ve made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

At the time when I was at the peak of my career in Bollywood, we never had social media to give us a direct sense of our popularity, the excitement among fans and their appreciation.

I think my peak 90s moment was posing on a Harley-Davidson outside the Met Bar with Wyclef Jean.

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I’d say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

Sometimes I get recognised and sometimes I don’t. The bus drivers will sometimes stop to try and get a selfie at peak times with traffic all around you!

I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there’s a problem. That’s what my sister always said: ‘Don’t worry, you’ll peak later.’

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I’m staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.

The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.

When I got married at the peak of my career, people told me that it’s over for me. But I didn’t let people’s opinion penetrate my mind.

On American TV, there just aren’t a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

Only by playing games regularly will I be able to hit my peak.

I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.

I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.

Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain – that’s the peak, the climax of everything.

In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak of the campaign in the country, according to data collected by New America.