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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I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
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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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My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
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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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I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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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.
