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Maya Lin

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

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"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

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Maya Lin
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

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Maya Lin
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."

School

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"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."

Art

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"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."

Authority

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"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

Politics

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Maya Lin
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."

Parents

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"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."

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Maya Lin
"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

Home

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Maya Lin
"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."

Architecture

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"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."

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Aberjhani

"Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions."

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Aberjhani

"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."

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Aberjhani

"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."

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Aberjhani

"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

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Aberjhani

"If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking."

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Aberjhani

"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

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Aberjhani

"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."

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Aberjhani

"Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge into a comprehensive schema regulates our evolving self-identity. The precision of the human mind and the interplay between cognitive thinking and reactive emotions plays a central role in self-identity."

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Aberjhani

"Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues."

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Aberjhani

"Mechanistic thinking focuses on "what, and holistic thinking digs into "why."

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