Haruki Murakami Quotes

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

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• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Technology
  • Should
  • India

• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Want
  • Vote

• It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Children
  • Eye

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Taken

• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Environment

• I love tap!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tap

• Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • King

• You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • World
  • Dream
  • Goal

• What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Views

• Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Person

• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Future

• I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Secret

• Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Question
  • Enlightenment
  • Miracles

• When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Persons

• The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Children
  • Real
  • Love

• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Remember
  • Ambition
  • Error

• The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Decide
  • Negotiation
  • Fellow

• Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Characters
  • Adults
  • Narratives