Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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I love twins stories.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former.
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Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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My mom says I was born screaming.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
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It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
