Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done. There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.
I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.
Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D. C.
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of hisher own strengths.
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M. B. A. 's wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack. . . gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.