"Some people can work their butts off and……" — Haruki Murakami
"Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all."
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1,044 Quotes by Haruki Murakami
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You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you…
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I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has…
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green,…
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People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't…
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Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what,…
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write…
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's…
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for…
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Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on…
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my…
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Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If…
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More Aiming Quotes
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the…
— Libby Trickett
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Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by…
— Fred Couples
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Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
— Charlotte Gray
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The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside…
— Hugo Black
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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