Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

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• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Sometimes
  • Working
  • Skills

• What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Today
  • Kitchen
  • Hell

• It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • School
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • God
  • Mother
  • Sad

• Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fate
  • Choice
  • Luxury

• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Pain
  • Heaven

• A rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Express

• I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Risk
  • Occasion
  • Humiliating

• Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Pride
  • Consciousness
  • Realization

• If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

  

  William Mapother
  • Body
  • Needs
  • Shows

• Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Ideas
  • Number
  • Forms

• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Determine
  • Injuries
  • Ruler

• There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Final

• Look, we give sales a rigid lead time for each product. So if it’s not in finished goods, those are the numbers they should use to promise to clients. Yeah, they deviate from it, but not by much. Maybe there should be another way. Maybe the quoted lead times should be done case by case, according to the load on the bottlenecks. And maybe we shouldn’t regard the quantities required as if we have to supply them in one shot.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Sales
  • Finished
  • Clients

• If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Straight
  • Ruler