Motivation Quote by Picabo Street

In one neat pivot, Picabo Street turns a triumphal story of human progress into something more honest: flight is possible, but it still asks your body and brain to betray their instincts. Coming from an Olympic skier - someone whose entire career was built on speed, air, and the thin line between control and catastrophe - the line lands less like a philosophical musing and more like lived advice from a person who has spent time at the edge of physics.

The intent is grounding. Street isn’t anti-innovation; she’s anti-denial. That middle clause, "We can do it", grants the modern boast. The punch comes in the second half: don't act shocked when your stomach drops, your ears pop, your nerves spike. The subtext is that "unnatural" isn’t a moral judgment; it’s a calibration problem. Technology can extend us faster than it can rewire us.

Culturally, it pushes against the clean, corporate version of achievement - the TED Talk sheen that pretends growth is seamless if you "believe". Street smuggles in an athlete’s realism: progress includes discomfort, disorientation, and the body’s stubborn veto. It’s also a quiet critique of the way we sell risk. We market flying (or any high-speed upgrade to human life) as convenience and mastery, then treat fear as personal weakness rather than an expected response.

The line works because it gives you permission to feel shaky without surrendering the ambition. It makes room for awe and nausea in the same breath.