#dying

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#brains #countries #dying #following #innocent

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#apply #developed #i #like #market

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#believed #discipline #doing #education #get

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#am #bucket #day #dying #feel

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#dying #me

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. ↗