Haruki Murakami Quotes

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

Haruki Murakami

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • You
  • Moving
  • Philosophy

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • People
  • Experience
  • True

• The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Language

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Language
  • Clever

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Language
  • Communication

• I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Game
  • Moving

• For me, yoga is like a moving meditation, and I do believe in a mind-body connection.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Moving

• Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Moving

• You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fun

• What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • People
  • Moving
  • Drunk

• This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Time
  • Future
  • Control

• Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

  

  Antonio Perez
  • Space
  • Moving

• Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Different
  • Important

• My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

  

  Joe Biden
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Morning

• For some girls it’s sexy when a guy bench-presses or throws a football, but he’s slaying me with the book references.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Football

• I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Need
  • Negativity
  • Somewhere

• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Moving
  • Language
  • Emotions