Maya Lin Quotes

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.

I choose my roles carefully.

I am someone who likes to take my time. I do one album in three years, unlike others.

I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.

The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

Take more time, cover less ground.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Details create success.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

Order is the key to all problems.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.