Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.
Haruki MurakamiIs action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
Haruki MurakamiListening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
Haruki MurakamiAs we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Haruki Murakami