Haruki Murakami Quotes

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Haruki Murakami

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• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Amazing

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.

  

  Al Gore
  • Thinking

• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wishes

• I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Player

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

  

  Lindsey Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Peace

• Most comics point out what everyone else is thinking but hadn't thought of verbalizing. I guess, in a way, that makes most comics seers. It just depends in what category - some choose to be the seers of relationships, some are seers of racial issues, and some are seers of political issues.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Thinking
  • Political

• 'Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?' The bear shuffled its alternatives. 'Real things are good.' 'I wonder if time is good. I don't think Mummy likes time very much. The other day, lots of days ago, she said that time went by her. Is time real, Teddy?'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Exercise
  • Judgment

• The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Spaghetti
  • Boils