"I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on."

-- Maya Lin

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“For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.”
“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”
“In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.”
“Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have a riff or a motif or a chord progression or a lyric written on a page, it's just a line or a word or something so I always give everything a working title when I'm making a folder.”
“Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.”
“When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republicâ€™s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, â€˜All hail King Coriolanus!”

Source : Steven Saylor (2007). “Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.168, Macmillan
“Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 09, 2012
“The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.”

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