Fred Funk

Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

American Athlete

Thomas Rhett

I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can either boost your career, and everybody can't wait until your third album, or the second one is terrible, and 'He probably hit a plateau on his first one.

American Musician

Bruce Lee

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

American Actor

Joyce Meyer

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

American Author

W. Clement Stone

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

American Businessman

Ricky Whittle

My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.

British Actor

Hafthor Bjornsson

I like to switch things up every four weeks by adding new exercises to my routine and alternating between high and low repetitions. This combats plateau, helping you see results quicker.

Icelander Athlete

Dan Rather

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

American Journalist

Irving Fisher

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

American Economist

Walt Mossberg

Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

Used in geography to describe landforms, indicates elevation above surroundings.

Geography Term

Often mentioned in travel and nature documentaries or articles.

Common in Travel

Plateaus can be culturally significant, named after regions or features.

Cultural Significance

Used metaphorically to describe a lack of progress in various fields.

Metaphor for Stagnation

Indicates a phase that one might overcome with effort or change in strategy.

Temporary Phase

Common in discussions of business, personal goals, and skill development.

Growth and Targets

Often follows a period of rapid growth or improvement.

After Rapid Growth

Doesn't always imply something negative; it can mean stability.

Not Necessarily Negative

Use based on observing trends over a considerable period of time.

Long-term Observation

 They tend to have what scientists call a "sampling period," where they try a variety of physical activities, they gain broad, general skills, they learn about their interests and abilities and delay specializing until later than peers who plateau at lower levels. And so when I saw that, I said,

Why specializing early...

 my mission in life at that point was to try to find and climb and pioneer first descents and all the biggest best cliffs in the world and so i put topois on the list tapui's are tabletop mesas that over millions of years eroded out of an ancient plateau of rock where today the

First Ascent of a Sky...

 now just be clear where we're at in the world and get a sense of what this plateau actually looks like one of the most important features though of our project and this is something that I really think that Pete needs some some really some great applause for as well

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 where it can then affect humans this photo is another example this is a very nice hospital in the central plateau in Haiti that I visited and they had these great flush toilets and so I said well what happens when you flush that water and they took me out back and

Sasha Kramer: Putting...

 help prevent the arrival of mink to the who degree breeding areas and this is done by the training of dogs to be able to locate mink dens and be able to trap these mink and prevent them from going up to the plateaus where the holy grails are breeding

Protecting the Hooded...

 which extend over 3,000 miles. Soon after, the Eurasian Plate rifts from North America, opening the North Atlantic Ocean. We'll fast forward again. The Colorado Plateau now uplifts, likely due to a combination of upward mantle flow

How North America got...

 wide rocky plateaus and all over this island are plants and animals only found here in the wild ninety percent of the island's reptiles don't live anywhere else on earth but if i had to pick a favorite critter i wouldn't be a rare

Why War Zones Need...

 a day in the life for all geladas begins on the edges of the cliff in the morning they wake up with the sunrise and slowly ascend kind of to the edge of the high plateau they'll spend an hour or maybe

Spend a Day With the...

 we still just scratched the surface so we don't know exactly what is underneath his giant limestone plateaus and it's an unknown world and it's it was a major

Vietnam's Infinite Cave...

 zomb is on a plateau in there in the middle of Malawi and while there's 3G access in the urban center of Zomba it quickly drops off to

Plateau

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