When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
Bertrand PiccardRead
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the inevitability of time and the illusions we create about escaping reality.
Bertrand Piccard's quote suggests that regardless of our desires or pursuits, the passage of time remains constant and inescapable. It also touches on human tendencies to fantasize about freedom and perpetual motion, but ultimately reminds us that we must confront the reality of each day and night amidst our journeys.
In practice
This quote can inspire a discussion on the importance of embracing the present moment during a motivational speech.
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
Religious doctrines β¦ are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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