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.

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...

Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge....

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and...

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I’ve been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

I’d been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I’d just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It’s like if you were to lift a 100-pound...

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it’s just an hour and a half and then once it’s over it’s over.

Nusu dakika baada ya kuondoa gari, Murphy aliona kiwiliwili cha mtu kikimwendea mbio kutokea katika nyumba ya magaidi! Hapohapo alisimamisha gari na kuacha taa zikiwaka, halafu akashika bunduki na kushuka – akiwa ameangalia mbele kwa...

When I’m up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

I like to look at the glass half full.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past… And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

When ‘Avatar’ came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn’t find many...

It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we’d look away and stop feeding...

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

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.