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 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 inequality.

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 20s, and I’ve been doing this for over 25 years.

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 my watch every half hour and moisturize.

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 another.

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 I got knocked out twice in the first round.

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 by almost half.

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.