Plateauing Quotes

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.

I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

If things are just gliding along easily and there's no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren't my most productive times, personally or professionally.

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