Philippe Petit famous quotes

04-23-2025

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
Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, thatâ€™s where life starts, thatâ€™s where you start feeling yourself living.
-- Philippe Petit

#Other Worlds #Feelings #Boundaries
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
-- Philippe Petit

#Leadership #Creative #Impossible
Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
-- Philippe Petit

#Dream #Soul #Limits
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
-- Philippe Petit

#Focus #Challenges
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
-- Philippe Petit

#Agency #Watches #World
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
-- Philippe Petit

#World #Impossible #Young
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
-- Philippe Petit

#Wire #Poet #Theatrical
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
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

#Motivation #Inspiration #Believe
Passion is the model of all my actions.
-- Philippe Petit

#Life #Passion #Purpose
Life should be lived on the edge of life.
-- Philippe Petit

#Should
Death frames the high wire. But I donâ€™t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
-- Philippe Petit

#Risk #Preparation #Wire
Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.
-- Philippe Petit

#Feet #Way
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

#Space #Clouds #Mountain
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
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

#Sky #Perfection #Long

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