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Maya Lin

"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."

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"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."

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Donna Grant

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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Donna Grant

"Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life."

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Donna Grant

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

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Donna Grant

"There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter."

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Donna Grant

"In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!"

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Donna Grant

"A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down."

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Donna Grant

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

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Donna Grant

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

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Donna Grant

"My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals."

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Donna Grant

"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."

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Maya Lin
"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."

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"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
"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."

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Maya Lin
"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."

School

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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
"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."

Nature

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"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."

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