Hanneli Mustaparta Quotes

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

We were always thinking big, dreaming big - no project was too big for us to tackle, and that comes from how we were raised. Our parents actually said to us, 'If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.'

Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

My way of thinking is like that: always positive.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

I believe everything has a solution.

I always believed you could fix whatever problems.

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

It's still in my heart. I can do it.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

I like a challenge.

I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.