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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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"Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back."

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"Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal, it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way."

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"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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"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."

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"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

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"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"

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"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

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"To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it."

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"We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal."

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"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast."

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"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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