Grace Jones

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.

Model

Glenn Tipton

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

English Musician

Emmy Rossum

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

American Actress

Eric Heiden

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.

American Athlete

Frank Dillane

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

English Actor

Hans Rosling

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Swedish Educator

Greg Rutherford

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

British Athlete

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

American Coach

Gloria Grahame

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German Writer

Peak may imply a climax or highest achievement in non-physical contexts.

Figurative Usage

Peak often suggests a temporary high point that declines afterwards.

Temporary State

Peak can refer to maximum levels in different contexts, like business or traffic.

Context Specific

Use 'peaked' to describe something that grew before reducing or stabilizing.

Growth Before Decline

Peaking can be negative, such as when describing problems or risks.

Not Always Positive

When 'peak' is an adjective, it's often about intensity or the best state.

Intensity

Use this to describe the moment something is at its most intense.

Momentary Peak

This definition of 'peak' refers to a part of headwear, not a general high point.

Specific Item

Remember, in this case, peak is a tangible, physical part of an object.

Physical Object

 one misstep meant death. But up he went, and when he reached the peak, he swayed and leapt across the gap of space onto a branch of the target tree and into a world never seen before. His buddy Marwood followed him up, and the two young men free climbed high into the redwood's crown.

What's hidden among the...

 there was a peak coal; and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood. This is a very important picture of the evolution of energy systems. And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades? Well, a lot of natural gas and a little bit of nuclear, for starters.

Richard Sears: Planning...

 starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature. The follicles respond by pumping out estrogen. The egg cells grow and estrogen levels peak,

How menstruation works -...

 like ripples covering the surface of a pond. We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys.

What is the Heisenberg...

 leather basil and the booze of extinction and nobody cares that peaked my interest len took the leatherback's future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to do

Sir David Attenborough...

 At their peak, it's been calculated they grow up to 40 kilograms every day. The dinosaur embryos are so well preserved we can see they already have their teeth, in preparation for a lifetime of eating.

The Biggest Dinosaur...

 that we know about that's many times the peak deaths that are due to other infections that grab the world's attention now if rabies is a big public health problem what other factors are causing this

Misconceptions about...

 except here I was climbing the platonic peaks like Romeo on a second date. I was there for the dame. She had eyes like imaginary numbers and curves that went on forever. Said she wanted to go home.

The case of the missing...

 dissolving rocks or breaking them down in a process known as weathering. Water moving downhill carries the weathered material and erodes the landscape, carving out deep valleys and jagged peaks.

Why is Mount Everest so...

 carved into the foothills of some of the world's highest peaks the Kathmandu