Payal Rohatgi Quotes

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.

If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

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 thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

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.'

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

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.

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

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

I've always strived to prove people wrong.

Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.

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

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

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

When I was a kid, people kept saying, 'You can't do this, you can't do that,' and I wanted to prove them wrong.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them