#yin

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#because #i #i love #love #much

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#days #doing #i #i think #over

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#definitely #first #garbage #going #i

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#anything #i #playing #prove

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#i #know #like #look #looks

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

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #competition #explore #exploring #fun

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#crowd #current #had #how #i

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #destroying #friends #i #make