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’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

I’ve always been able to cook Italian food. That’s in my blood because I’m half Sicilian.

I’ve got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

Well begun is half done.

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

I did ‘Othello’ at the Oregon Shakes – I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That’s where my training is.

One moment’s not half of two moments; two moment are halves of one moment.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I’m just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income...

It’s certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don’t know what it is I do. Because half the time you’re talking to people who are in their...

The longest show I’ve ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

I can’t go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn’t fly.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

There’s nothing half so real in life as the things you’ve done… inexorably, unalterably done.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go – production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don’t have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

My shoots are very much about skin, so I’m an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at...

I don’t like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

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.