#ever

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. ↗

— Maya Lin

#drawn #get #most #never #part

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. ↗

— Maya Lin

#came #ever #guaranteed #might #next

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#charmed #did #ear #ever #listener

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #brain #completely #conviction #everything

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#consideration #could #deserves #existed #first

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#confidence #esteem #forfeit #never #once

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#every #him #himself #hinder #improve