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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

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

Oxymoron, Lives, Maximizing

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, Always, Time Passes

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

Bad, Bad Guy, Innocent

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. Chadwick Boseman

Cherish, Different Way

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

Before, Exploding

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

City, Medical, Entire

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, Always, Like

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

I Think, Minorities, Boomers

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. J. J. Abrams

Want, Never, Use

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

Old, New, Matter

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily. Sarah Koenig

Birthday, Idea, Named

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

Values, Doing, Maintain

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. Antonio Damasio

Alive, Away, About

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

Ominous, Guess, Armchair

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. Stacey D'Erasmo

Small, Needed, Reliably

I like time ticking the way it is. Stephen Graham

Time, Way, Like

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

Repair, Congressional, Bombs

Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation. Ronan Farrow

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, Over, Became

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience. Marcia Cross

Love, Guy, Right Man

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it. Max Winkler

Lucky, I Think, Movie

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

Clock, Pregnancy, Adoption

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

Country, Argument, Voters

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

Processes, Very, Intensely

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language. Boris Johnson

Going, Finger, Endlessly

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are. Rob Lowe

Box, Over, Acceptable

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