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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, Beyond

I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard. Rakul Preet Singh

Work, Time, Respect, Money, I Am, Saying

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, Acting, You, Clock

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, City, Medical, World, Creating

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

Pressure, Know, You, Clock, Cherish, Way

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

Morning, New York, Puzzle, Grey, New

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

Focus, People, Me, Achieving, Wake Up

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. Robert Lanza

Animal, Waves, Kitchen, Clock, Chicken

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, Time, Death, Life Is A, Clock

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, Children, Food, Parents

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

Busy, Brain, Always, Like, Keep, Starts

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, Know, You, Clock, Want, Never

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, Evil, Choice, Easy, You

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, Clock, Meet, Never

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, Women, Children, Age, Experience

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

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

Time, Moment, Thinking, Doing, You, Talk

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

Happiness, Me, Believe, Off, Cronkite

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

Clock, Pregnancy, Adoption, Thing

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking. Jane Lynch

Experience, Clock, Never, Through, Heard

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, Serious, Why

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

Clock, Difficult, Film, Because, Happens

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, Living, Animals, Natural

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

You, Clock, Like, Movie, Sport

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

Positive, Time, Opportunity, People, You

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

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