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.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
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