I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
Quotes about pinnacle (16 Quotes)
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
It really depends on who the buyer is. Colony has the flexibility of being a private firm and they're not worried about answering Wall Street analyst questions on a conference call. That gives them an advantage. Certainly, Pinnacle has an edge because it already has a signed agreement, but the question is who can put together best financing package and who wants it the most.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of furfilment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
I ask upon what pinnacle do we base human life and wellbeing that denies all rights whatsoever to every species but our own ... Those who refuse to help errect the milestones are not on the march.
Where he was, you're at the pinnacle of success. This is the peak of achievement as far as individuals are concerned, as far as success goes. It is ironic that you can go from there and then you fall so low.
My Pinnacle advocate is part of my 360-degree circle of support. I will not tolerate medical mistakes and bureaucracy. And because of PinnacleCare, I don't have torecently I saw a physician because of a medical concern. PinnacleCare had provided for me a complete medical history, going back to my childhood. And I presented that to this physician who told me that he'd never seen anything like this in his life and could provide me with a level of support and solutions to my problem that would have been unthinkable otherwise because of how he understood me and my medical needs. To me, that's priceless.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.
It is an awesome experience for each and every one of us. It's the pinnacle of our careers for the coaches and players alike to come here and live life like big leaguers for three weeks.