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.

The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

Your goal is your desired outcome. Your system is the collection of daily habits that will get you there.

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we’re living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It’s that...

I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions...

You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you’re doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song’s...

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

I don’t understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from...

I think people really want to see the real because the world is portrayed at such a low level that if you come out with a real wholesome show, people don’t want to see that...

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already...

We’re playing at our level of ability.

I think I’d be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the ’40s. I’d be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I’d suit that decade.

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet – a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

I don’t think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level...

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you’re kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece....

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Behaviour arises from the level of one’s consciousness.

The level of detail and craft is something that’s inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

I’m a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there’s a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

There’s an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it’s where I’ve grown up.

I know I can’t do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at...

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn’t have planned it. But by making the choice to come to...

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

No matter how potent your talents are, they remain to be out of use until you take time to develop them to their optimum level. This calls for preparation. Through preparation, personal branding, consistent exposure...

The real ultimate extreme level of a moment of time is nothing.

Every acting gig isn’t the same, every writing job isn’t the same, every live performance isn’t the same – the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses...

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he’s on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it...

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can’t get into rap.

An ultimate extreme level of a moment is the black hole of time.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.