Boyan Slat Quotes

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

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

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

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

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

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

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

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.

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

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

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.'

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.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

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.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

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.

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.'

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.