Philippe Petit Quotes

• Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

  Philippe Petit

  Exercise, Years, Ideas

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

  Philippe Petit

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

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• Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

  Philippe Petit

  Dream, Soul, Limits

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• It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

  Philippe Petit

  Leadership, Creative, Impossible

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• I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

  Philippe Petit

  Focus, Challenges

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• You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.

  Philippe Petit

  Moving, Fall, Long

  Philippe Petit (1985). “On the High Wire”, Random House Incorporated

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• Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

  Philippe Petit

  Other Worlds, Feelings, Boundaries

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• When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  World, Impossible, Young

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• I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

  Philippe Petit

  Years, Risk, Looks

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

  Philippe Petit

  Impossible, Knows

  Philippe Petit (2015). “The Walk”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Passion is the model of all my actions.

  Philippe Petit

  Life, Passion, Purpose

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life.

  Philippe Petit

  Existential, Should, Edges

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

  Philippe Petit

  Journey, Sky, Hiking

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• For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

  Philippe Petit

  Block, Air, Safety

  Fuente: collider.com

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• You can always find a way to do something. Now, of course, when I do the action, it's an action that inspires people, it's a gift to people, it's not the other way around, I do not take something, I do not hurt people. Yes, I think today would be more than impossible and yet part of me would think that I continue to think that nothing is impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Herir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

  Philippe Petit

  Agency, Doe, Watches

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• I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.

  Philippe Petit

  Fighting, Wind, Practice

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

  Philippe Petit

  Risk, Preparation, Wire

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• I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

  Philippe Petit

  Beautiful, Easter, Islands

  Fuente: collider.com

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• On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
  On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

  Philippe Petit

  Clouds, Space, Mountain

  Philippe Petit (2015). “To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in”, p.194, Faber & Faber

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• If I die, what a beautiful death.

  Philippe Petit

  Beautiful, Beautiful Death, Dies

  "Man on Wire". Documentary, Biography, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Motivación, Creer, Inspiración

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• He dado muchas vueltas al mundo y cada vez es diferente de la anterior. Me siento un poco como un director de teatro, creando un teatro en el espacio. Es realmente un teatro en el cielo. Pero, por supuesto, el World Trade Center es sin duda la más conocida de mis producciones.

  Philippe Petit

  Sky, Creating, Space

  Fuente: collider.com

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• The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.

  Philippe Petit

  Heart, Cities, People

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

  Philippe Petit

  Feet, Way, Knows

  Philippe Petit (2015). “The Walk”, p.301, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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