Haruki Murakami Quotes

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

People who think well, write well

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

I think listening to people is helpful.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.