Bertrand Piccard quotes

Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychologist and pioneering explorer, best known for his feats in aviation and human endurance. His groundbreaking achievements include co-piloting the first non-stop balloon flight around the world and leading the solar-powered flight Solar Impulse. He uses his expertise to promote innovation and sustainability on a global scale. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

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What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

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I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

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My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

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A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

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