#act

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#born #capable #first #guiding #over

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. ↗

— Maya Lin

#against #antisocial #failed #fundamentally #i

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. ↗

— Maya Lin

#age #closer #some #teachers #than

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. ↗

— Maya Lin

#almost #architecture #art #childlike #go

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#fact #hope #industry #spur

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #believer #bring #crisis #depended

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#agreed #definition #destroyer #drives #him

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#capitalists #concert #generally #harmoniously #people