Haruki Murakami Quotes

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Haruki Murakami

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Up
  • World
  • Son

• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Crime
  • Movement

• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

  

  Louis Susman
  • Done
  • Wish

• I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Fear

• As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

  

  Jim Costa
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Help

• I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Time
  • Comedy

• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Listening

• When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

  

  Joe Slovo
  • Stop
  • Wife
  • Morning

• We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

  

  Daniel Goleman

• What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This 'seeing' is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Training

• Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?

  

  Plautus

• The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing

• I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

  

  Matt Stone
  • Atheist

• Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Waldo Miller Salt
  • Art
  • Crafts
  • Unnecessary

• If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • May
  • Day

• I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Believe
  • Clever

• Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Feel