Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

I have a super-balanced life, and I'm a super balanced guy.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of Abraham Lincoln's life, too. In a way, it reflects the halves of Lincoln's own character - one all jokes and buffoonery, the other all high-minded seriousness. If he could absorb both into his personality, I think I can, too.

I think that I have a lot of different personalities inside me, and I can just draw on them when I need to. And that, I don't know, maybe that makes me sort of schizophrenic in my real life, but it helps at work.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".