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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, Clock, Answer

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding. Lisa Ling

Home, Time, Food, Children, Parents

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, Clock, Cherish

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking. Tim Howard

You, Fame, Clock, Get, Hear, Minutes

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, Blood, Our

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. James Lafferty

Me, Sleep, Trying, Clock, Go, Little

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something. Hannah Ware

Love, Good, Time, You, Acting, Clock

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, Innocent, Evil, You, Bad

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. Carol Burnett

Morning, Puzzle, New York, New, Grey

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. James Thurber

Future, Past, Present, Sound, Old, Guess

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. Kenneth Branagh

Difficult, Clock, Film, Because, Get

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation. Scott Adams

Myself, Situation, Meet, Never, Clock

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption. Aisha Tyler

Clock, Pregnancy, Thing, Adoption

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, Know, Never, Clock, Want

I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.' James Carville

Hope, Time, People, Saying, Country, Why

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

Loved, Brain, Breakfast, Doing, Need

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, World, Zoo, Animals, Own, Watch

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing. Stella Young

Life, Love, Time, People, My Life, Doing

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure. Christine Pelosi

Time, Roads, Bridges, Know, American

I never like to talk about things until we're already successful. The moment you announce what you're thinking about doing, you've already created a ticking time bomb. Scooter Braun

Moment, Time, Thinking, You, Doing, Talk

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking. Nicholas Hoult

Brain, Busy, Always, Like, Keep, Starts

I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer's - which disproportionately affects women and minorities. Vivek Ramaswamy

Women, Time, Age, Baby, Think, Security

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, Never, Career, Early, Little, Off

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport. Benicio Del Toro

You, Clock, Like, Movie, Sport

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. John Lydon

Me, People, Focus, Feel, Wake Up, Values

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite. Billy Crystal

Happiness, Me, Believe, Off, Cronkite

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