#thou

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#fan #feel #game #growing #growing up

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. ↗

— Maya Lin

#thought #warmth

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

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. ↗

— Maya Lin

#confront #invoke #necessary #some #thought

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#doubt #fool #out #remain #remove

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment #succeed

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#fail #nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined