- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bengali
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am half Bengali and half Marathi.
- Ended
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well begun is half ended.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I completed five half marathons in 2002.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
A good lather is half the shave.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020