Half Quotes
On splitting effort, time, and attention in two.
These half quotes look at how effort or attention gets split — mental versus physical, old habits versus new tools, expectation versus what actually happened. The idea connects with Balance quotes, which explore similar tension between two sides.
Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century,...
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.
Balance Quotes
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
Contrast Quotes
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.
Division Quotes
At any one time, there are approximately 1.2 million fugitives at large in the United States - it is likely that approximately half a million of these are dangerous fugitives.
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
Emotion Quotes
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
