Diane Paulus

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

American Director

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Indian Philosopher

Martin Luther King III

Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to the voiceless. The pursuit of civil equality in health helped build our environmental laws.

American Activist

Fred Kavli

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

American Businessman

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

South African Statesman

Helene Yorke

I was crying because I was making my Broadway debut and there's nothing like that. It's the absolute mountaintop for a nerd like me that's loved it forever.

Andre Ward

I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've proven I can get to the mountaintop.

American Athlete

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Canadian Actress

Dustin Poirier

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

John Yarmuth

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

American Politician

Refers to actual climbing, suggesting adventure and effort.

Physical Journey

Used to describe an accomplishment after a long or tough journey.

Achievement Context

Implies a visual goal, ideal for motivation and goal setting.

Visualizing Success

Refers to the ultimate goal or highest achievement in a field.

Metaphor for Success

Symbolizes high aspirations and is often used in inspirational contexts.

Aspirational Phrase

Often personalized, meaning everyone's 'mountaintop' can be different.

Personal Achievement

 the world it's a whole other portfolio of things you're supposed to do the rituals that derive from it the rules that come down from revealed texts that's a whole other conversation than telling me that I'm experiencing an open door to God when I'm on a mountaintop I think those are two different things I

Destroying the Poetry of...

 local knowledge about how to get the most out of that region's wind she calculated the upfront cost and the payback over time and it's a net plus on so many levels for the local national and global economy it's a longer payback than mountaintop removal but the wind energy actually pays back forever the

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 She calculated the up-front cost and the payback over time, and it's a net-plus on so many levels for the local, national and global economy. It's a longer payback than mountaintop removal, but the wind energy actually pays back forever. Now mountaintop removal pays very little money to the locals,

Majora Carter: 3 stories...

 A mountaintop or prairie? Not good! You need to get buried, the faster the better, because the longer you hang around on the surface, the more likely you'll get eaten, scavenged, or otherwise destroyed before ever having a chance to get preserved. If you can get buried someplace

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 of metrics, lead tables and social media, perfectionism is inevitable, so long as they lack any purpose in life greater than how they are appearing or how they are performing to other people. What can they do about it? Every time they are knocked down from that mountaintop,

Our dangerous obsession...

 it comes to heavy machinery he's the man who needs to get out of there our business building while we can build your dream cabin on a mountaintop top of the world right here how do you gonna get your material up here yeah or we can build it in the back waters of

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 governments are forcing the public to subsidize fossil mewls by four hundred to five hundred billion dollars per year worldwide thus encouraging extraction of every fossil fuel mountaintop removal long wall

Why I must speak out...

 So both the physical cloud in the sky and something you can go to the top, like London's new mountaintop. You can enter inside it. And a kind of new digital beacon for the night -- but most importantly,

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 but when those fundamentals are in place, they can take you to the mountaintop. I want you to think about your life for a moment. Do you have the right metrics? Take time to write down your values,

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 per year worldwide, thus encouraging extraction of every fossil fuel -- mountaintop removal, longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.