Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
-
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
-
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
-
Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
-
A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
-
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
-
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
-
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
-
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
-
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
-
If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
-
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
-
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
-
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-
People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
-
The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
-
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
-
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
-
I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
-
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
-
The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of 'optimism training' is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
-
It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.
-
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
-
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
