Haruki Murakami Quotes
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
Quotes to Explore
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
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You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.
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The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
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As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.
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Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.
