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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
John C. Maxwell
Time
Management
Control
Our
Our Lives
Lead
Beyond
Ticking
Answer
How
Priority
Time Management
Clock
Maximizing
Oxymoron
Regardless
Lives
Keeps
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer
Life
Time
You
Innocent
Evil
First
Possesses
Circumstances
Bad
Easy
Torture
Bad Guy
Case
Guy
Except
Could
He
Ticking
Time Bomb
Refuses
Information
Stake
Choice
Captured
Bomb
Two
Save
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams
Time
You
Never
Had
Know
Ticking
Clock
Want
Use
We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.
Richard Preston
Time
You
World
Remove
City
Entire
Area
Take
Put
Like
Ticking
Massive
California
Time Bomb
Urban
Urban Areas
Then
Creating
Sanitation
Population
Bomb
Medical
Basic
Services
Biological
Third
Third World
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
Aisha Tyler
Adoption
Ticking
Clock
Pregnancy
Thing
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
Alan Ball
You
People
Directing
Physically
Exciting
Ticking
Because
Clock
Very
Social
Working
Enjoyable
I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.
Anne-Marie Duff
Work
Home
You
Sometimes
Try
Mind
Own
Clothes
Back
Tricky
Wearing
Costume
Take
Feels
Suppose
Ticking
Underneath
Always
Very
Your
Hard
Away
Things
Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
Billy Crystal
Happiness
Me
Believe
Cronkite
Ticking
Off
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
Carol Burnett
Morning
Matter
Old
Every
Crossword
Puzzle
New
Ticking
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Grey
Keep
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
Chadwick Boseman
You
Pressure
Way
Know
Ticking
Cherish
Clock
Different
Different Way
Things
I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could.
Clive Barker
Time
Best
Way
Those
Possible
Possibly
Could
Had
Ticking
Always
Lot
Clock
Very
Wanted
Biggest
Aware
Things
I know what I want, and the performance side is more important than ticking the money box.
Daniel Ricciardo
Money
Important
Side
More
Performance
Know
Ticking
Box
Than
Want
Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.
David Hepworth
Financial
Giving
Busy
Consist
Pretend
Some
Columns
Ticking
Because
Off
Times
Wondering
Whether
Lend
CEO
Themselves
Really
Lucy
Her
I like to do the simple things really well, keep the ball ticking.
Declan Rice
Simple
Simple Things
Like
Ticking
Well
Ball
Really
Keep
Things
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
Denise Van Outen
Big
Breakfast
Something
Almost
Over
Concentrate
Ticking
Became
Doing
Brain
Automatic
Loved
Much
Keep
Need
The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.
Dev Hynes
Song
Goals
Finished
Once
Musical
Kind
More
Purpose
Main
Had
Like
Ticking
Boxes
Issue
Goal
Very
Wonder
Personal
Done
Dorky
Them
Fulfil
Really
Albums
Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.
Diane Ackerman
Time
Natural
World
Somewhere
Animals
Own
Sense
Living
Our
Though
Collection
Madly
More
Between
Like
Ticking
Exists
Any
Means
Natural World
Watch
Zone
Zoo
There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.
Dillian Whyte
Time
Waiting
Wait
Sit
Down
Ticking
Call
Years
Fighters
Two
My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.
Dillian Whyte
Time
Needs
Progress
Ticking
Career
I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.
Ella Mai
Girl
Dreamed
About
Could
Never
Since
Ticking
Boxes
Off
Little
Little Girl
Early
Career
Imagined
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
Eric Liu
Freedom
You
Mistake
Opportunity
Down
Clarity
Followers
About
Something
Purpose
He
Part
Feel
Days
Like
Ticking
Makes
His
Than
Just
Cannot
Story
Bush
Themselves
Larger
Believes
I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.
Esther McVey
Other
Mine
Wound
Had
Nobody
Know
Ticking
Clock
Up
Friends
Children
Happened
Burning
Burning Desire
Who
Ever
Biological
Desire
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Buchner
Life
Death
Time
Life Is A
Drop
Our
Slowly
Ticking
Lingering
Blood
Clock
Fever
Measures
Each
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.
Heather Morris
You
Tricks
Hot
Like
Know
Ticking
Really
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
Jennifer Grey
Three
Months
Spinal
Had
Ticking
Surgery
Off
List
Tumor
Things
Four
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
JoBeth Williams
Lawyer
Baby
Relate
Something
Could
Mary
Part
Ticking
Because
Felt
Clock
Wanted
Who
Kay
Play
Her
Played
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