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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.
I like time ticking the way it is.
My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.
Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
I like to do the simple things really well, keep the ball ticking.
Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.
The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb.
I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.
I know what I want, and the performance side is more important than ticking the money box.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
My mum has taught me that the clock is ticking and you have to enjoy every moment - you can not replace time.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
I had neck surgery and I'm not freaking stupid. I get that my window is smaller than it was and my bump card is ticking.
Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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.
It's very good for one's brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.
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.
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.
I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By the time I was 20 I wanted to be in my first Hollywood blockbuster. Achieving that by 24 is amazing, by God's grace - but you're running on a ticking time bomb.
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.
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.
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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.
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.
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.
