Paul Hawken Quotes

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

No matter if you have one hand or two hands, when someone tells you you can't do something, the only thing you can do is just prove them wrong, no matter what it is, no matter how hard it is.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

It is not the critic who counts

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

There aren't many hits like 'Kinky Boots,' so when you get one, the gratitude that comes with it fuels your energy. From the time I started in this business, everybody told me that who I was and what I represented would never work. Well, I get to stand on stage every day and prove the naysayers wrong by doing exactly what they told me not to do.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.