Skip to content

Accomplishment Quote by Maya Lin

“Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while…” quote by Maya Lin — Download Open image

“Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Accomplishment Action Given Life Made Our actions Our lives Time

More by Maya Lin

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Image

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

Image

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder…

Image

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Image

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

Image

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of…

Image

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and…

Image

I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always…

Image

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Image

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

Image

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Image

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be…

Image

Explore all 81 Maya Lin quotes

More Accomplishment quotes

Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing…

Image

“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated…

Jack Weatherford

Image

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

Image

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Image

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and…

Image

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride…

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Image

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take…

Image

I'm not always right, but I learn from my mistakes and make it a productive experience

Image

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched…

Image

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Image

Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of…

Image

I expected college to feel like a major accomplishment. I walked across the stage, eight months pregnant with my almost seven-year-old daughter watching in…

Image

Browse all 1,505 Accomplishment quotes