Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.
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When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
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Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
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Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
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A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.
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Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
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It's very awkward when you aren't so old inside as you are outside. For years I've been trying to be dignified, and I'm always being tripped up by a kind of apparently incurable natural effervescence.