Haruki Murakami Quotes

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

Be quick, but don't hurry.