Haruki Murakami Quotes

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

Haruki Murakami

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Religion

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Crazy

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Intelligent

• I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Up
  • High
  • Technology

• Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Help

• I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Time

• If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • People
  • Effort

• I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Integrity

• Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.

  

  Mark White Spin Doctors
  • Real

• There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

  

  Chris Jordan

• Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • Long
  • Stop

• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Work
  • Trying

• Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Financial
  • Management

• And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Interest
  • Minutes
  • Fence

• I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Hollywood
  • Careers

• Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Flight