The fastest way to raise your level of performance: Cut your number of commitments in half.

Optimists solve problems when they arise. Pessimists invent problems before they start.

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

One half of the world’s people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by...

Be prepared before you set off to work on your dreams. Prior preparation is success divided by half. The more prepared you are, the easier your success. Set off.

Women hold up half the sky.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Well, I’ve just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and...

So it’s really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that’s half of our market gone.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

Music is half the film.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I’m only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

Some say the glass is half full and blush,Some say it’s half empty and sink,I feel you are in the midst of,reaching out for another awesome drink!

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it – as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag...

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny – 5’1 and a half inches – so there’s nowhere for weight to hide.

I’m a fast and impatient dresser, so I can’t dress myself up for too long. I don’t even need a lot of makeup, so I’m usually ready in about half an hour.

I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

I’ve spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

That’s probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band – I wanted to see the world.

Basically, what we’ve done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who’ve helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in...

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

We’re half the people; we should be half the Congress.

On ‘There Will Be Blood,’ I was cast at the last minute. I had 3 and a half to 4 days to get ready for the first day. I just went for it, threw myself...

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Spoiled. That’s all it’s about – can’t live without this, can’t live without that. You can live without anything you weren’t born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I’m a Virginian Ballard.

If people take an interest in you and they think there’s half a chance, they might hang on. It’s dreadful.

At my age, I don’t buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...