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.

You know, I’ve just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there’s any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre...

I have a coach but there’s nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

First and foremost, I enjoy working. I’m not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I’m like, ‘Let’s go!’

If we can play like that every week we’ll get some level of consistency.

An actor’s job is about putting across the author’s intention; I don’t think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there’s an exchange of ideas.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered.

I sometimes don’t know what I’m writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

I’m very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

I don’t want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don’t fear.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there’s another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you’re dressing up and deciding...

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

It’s not really the life of cooking that’s hard – it’s what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

I’m not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I’m an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is...

You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never...

I think it’s appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is...

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower...

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you’re from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

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.