Haruki Murakami Quotes

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many.

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

All the theories mess you up inside.

There is simply too much to think about.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

We began to look at "Why is that?" And a large part of that has to do with the fact that when people have a lot of options to choose from they don't know how to tell them apart. They don't know how to keep track of them.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.