Haruki Murakami Quotes

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

Haruki Murakami

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• Writing
• Concentrate
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• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Want
  • Haters

• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Always
  • Better

• I have always believed in quality work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Always

• When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Wonder
  • Teacher

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Think
  • Freedom

• My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • World
  • Work
  • Change

• Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Writing
  • Pregnancy

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• I would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Fighting
  • Gay
  • Wishes

• To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

  

  Nahoko Uehashi
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Concerned

• When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

  

  Amy Klobuchar

• I thought I could beat anyone in the world.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • World

• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Middle

• I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Concentrate