Haruki Murakami Quotes

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.

Haruki Murakami

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• Independent
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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

  

  David Eagleman
  • People
  • Understanding

• A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Respect
  • Lost
  • Nice

• Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

  

  Louise Bogan
  • Work

• People don't know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Science
  • Earth

• Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It's a con job.

  

  James Meredith
  • Why
  • Job
  • Black

• The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • People
  • Hate
  • Racism

• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Behavior

• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • Family
  • Heart

• During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

  

  David Novak
  • Independent

• A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Growing
  • Independent