Cornelia Parker Quotes

I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

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

I have not yet begun to fight!

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

I've always strived to prove people wrong.

If people keep telling you you can't do a thing, then you need to find a really good reason to continue. If someone tells you you can't do something, how will you know? If someone tells you something is impossible, how will you know?

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.'

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. …. We shall fight on the beaches … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.