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

Light Guy Band Peaking

Author:Subb-an

“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.”

People Men Heart Moral Changed Tone Peaking

Author:Matthew Simpson

“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.”

Ifs Years Looks May Doe Two Institutions Apples Empires Decline Roman Empire Another Year Peaking

Author:Trip Hawkins

“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.”

Want Wells Bigs Wanted Felt Loses Audience Stage Grew Losing Connections Stay True True To Myself Losing Myself Peaking

Author:Jason Mraz

“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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Way Play Dream Appreciate And Love Vulnerability Flaws Flawed Having Hope Hopes And Dreams Quirks Dreams And Love Peaking

Author:Rainn Wilson

“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.”

People Believe School Youth Ought Prison Ill Privilege Educational Superiors Educated Aliens Gaps Arrogant Here I Am Public Education Peaking

Author:Adrienne Rich

“'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.”

Mean Winning Failing Hollywood Pizza Salmon Peaking Smoked Salmon

Author:Roseanne Barr

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

Possibility Peaking

Author:George McGovern

“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.”

Source: Fablehaven

“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.”

Said Facts Night Hours Regret Bed Late Lays Wit Solitary Midnight Peaking

Book:The Blindfold

Source: The Blindfold

“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.”

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

Crazy Tournaments Exhibitions Peaking

Author:Roger Federer

“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.”

“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.”

Source: The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency

“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.”

Inspirational Ends Sometimes Whole Moments Success Process Goal Growth Failure Balls Accomplishment Reaching Zone Flags Summit Road To Success Peaking

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“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.”

People Ifs Want Stills Real Shows Existence Sadness Function Intense Best Things Cheer Cheer Up Humdrum Peaking

Author:David Byrne

“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.”

Ifs Feels Stills Happens Careers Awareness Strange Worried Puberty Peaking

Author:Richard Griffiths