Haruki Murakami Quotes
You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
Quotes to Explore
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
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There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
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The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.
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The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
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If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.
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You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.
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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
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Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.
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I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.
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I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
