Haruki Murakami Quotes

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

Haruki Murakami

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Up
  • Same
  • Too Much

• Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • New
  • Generation
  • Peaceful

• Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • You
  • Audience

• I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Like
  • Talk
  • Magical

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Brain
  • Survival

• An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Future

• I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Yoga

• To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

  

  Jacqueline Cochran
  • Live
  • Death
  • Risk

• I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.

  

  Linda Gray
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Family
  • Heart

• Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Words
  • Joy

• Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Hindsight
  • Illuminating

• There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Experience
  • Understand
  • No Matter