Plateau Quotations

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

We need to pick up our intensity in practices, now, to get ready. We've hit a plateau right now, so we've got to reach another peak.

Maybe three or four years ago (eight wins) was the plateau and then maybe three or four years ago the Big East had some teams at 9-7 that didn't get in. Since then, I think there has been a little insecurity.

I was lucky growing up, ... I had two wonderful parents who helped me and supported me through my whole career. And I went through high school with normal friends and people treating me like a normal kid. That's the way I want to be. I don't want to be like on a plateau with stars. I want to enjoy life like it should be, with my friends.

I think we have to think about this. These people, most of them, there are some exceptions, but most of them are on a different plateau than what you and I are used to. We need to find ways to help them get into mainstream society.

is a flow out of Plateau. If the governor in Plateau had taken the right steps, there would not have been Kano. You don't deal with symptoms and leave the disease.

Our findings support the belief that early plant domestication and food production relied on millet in the semi-arid Loess plateau region of China,

Plateau Valley was a good, scrappy team, and I was very pleased with how we came out and played the first half. We really stepped up.

Recognize the rough spot. Once we try to ignore it, it keeps coming back. Address it and say 'OK, so how would I feel if I pressed through and did this?' Don't say 'I'm going to make myself do this' - then it just becomes like torture. Have a mind, body, soul conversation at the plateau to check in with yourself and see how you're feeling. Then you'll generally be ready to move forward.

Local housing markets will cool off, leading to a slowdown in spending and some job losses in construction and other real estate-related industries. With this in mind, we are currently forecasting a plateau in home prices, a moderate decrease in sales and new building and two years of weak growth. However, this forecast represents the middle of the road.

With the exception of a little plateau here or there, they have pretty much gone up steadily

We've never had a streak like this. We think we've come to an end for setting a record each year, but we're projecting this is a new plateau because of population growth and household formation.

Those who think that energy prices are headed back into the $30's are dreaming. A $50-$60 trading range for oil is more likely to be a plateau on the way to even higher prices. Demand for energy is rising unabated.

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

Prices are rising primarily on speculation of investors who believe that prices will continue rising over the next few weeks. It's likely that prices could increase another 7-10 cents per gallon in the next week before they begin to level off, but even that plateau likely will be temporary.

Anybody can have a good day. But you have to be consistent. It's that philosophy that you reach a plateau and you're consistent at it and then you go beyond than that. This sets her up for that.

This form goes through stages when it progresses very dramatically, then it levels off, or a 'plateau. He could drop off that plateau tonight. That's the real threat that the disease poses.

A lot of us have reached an economic plateau in our lives. Before, the best we could hope for is to retire on Social Security .

It puts Bartolo in a special plateau of pitchers. I haven't seen that many pitchers that can throw it that hard with that kind of movement. He can get three different looks with his fastball.

It's still a big plateau for a lot of guys. It's a mark that everyone likes to get to. Personally, I didn't put too much emphasis on it, but I view myself more as a play-making centre.

Not that I'm trying to put myself on the same plateau as coach Olson, but it struck me that he was very successful at Iowa, a well-established program in the Big Ten, and he made a quantum leap to Arizona at a similar stage in his career.

The labor market remains on a high plateau that has prevailed in the last year and a half.

Investors have been looking for excuses to say the chip cycle is over, ... But I'd guess that things don't plateau until mid 2005.

I am proud of the boys. It's hard to say good-bye to the seniors because these guys got us to a plateau and hopefully next year's bunch can take it from there.

A more relevant description would be a plateau in production capacity that might be reached in the fourth or fifth decade of this century.

The market is higher, but we're not talking huge moves here. The market is looking at a plateau in the fed funds rate at or around 5%.