"I cannot force a design; I do not……" — Maya Lin
"I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control."
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67 Quotes by Maya Lin
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up…
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes…
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find…
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because…
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked…
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I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each…
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the…
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never…
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s,…
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More Cannot Force Quotes
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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
— Confucius
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Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way…
— Rajneesh
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You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens…
— Rajneesh
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
— William Hazlitt
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There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you…
— Albert Camus
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
— Sholem Asch
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You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.
— Ashly Lorenzana
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our…
— Strom Thurmond
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day,…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can…
— Henry B. Eyring
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You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role…
— Peter Senge
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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have…
— Peter DeFazio
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