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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• Growing
• Independent
• Force
• Experienced

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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

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

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• 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

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

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• 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

• And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • World
  • Good
  • Kids

• I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Life
  • Age
  • Ocean

• I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

  

  Drake
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Light

• 'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Energy
  • Film
  • Independent

• Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Show
  • Create
  • Exists

• The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

  

  Warren Hern
  • Abortion
  • Sensations
  • Electric

• 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