Haruki Murakami Quotes

Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Haruki Murakami

• Music
• Confidence
• Loved
• Cats

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• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Answer

• My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fear
  • Feel
  • Motto

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
  • Small

• I couldn't care less about business.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Business
  • Care
  • Less

• In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Player
  • Star
  • Religion

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Work

• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Up

• I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Age

• Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Real

• One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Lost

• So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

  

  Dorothea Brande
  • Long
  • Sales

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Because the managerial élites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • People

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Loved