Douglas Rushkoff

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

American Journalist

Maria de Villota

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

Spanish Celebrity

Daley Thompson

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

English Athlete

A stopwatch is typically a handheld gadget, not a feature on a phone or computer.

Physical Object

Stopwatches are used when precise timing is crucial, like in sports or scientific experiments.

Precision Tool

Don't confuse a stopwatch with a clock; it counts durations, not the current time.

Not a Clock

 and I thought, "Oh. I'm the subject of the painting." And I thought, "I'm not going to be able to do that painting." I was to the point where I was using a stopwatch and painting squares out of randomness, and I wasn't getting anywhere. So I went back and dumped all my paintings in the Arno, and I thought, I'm going to just start playing around.

4 Lessons in Creativity...

 back at my shop baby lean we used to have a field car racing Friday night and we just pick up junk cars on the side of the road and we'd race them around the field then we had quite a track setup with cones and stopwatch everybody and it just started getting out of hand you

Tuffy Tales: Blindfolded...

 So, you know, even sex is on a stopwatch these days. Now, you know, I like a quickie as much as the next person, but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained from slow sex -- from slowing down in the bedroom. You know, you tap into that -- those deeper,

Carl Honore: In praise...

 that in 80 years we're on track to lose half of all species and that's including plants i really have this stopwatch mentality i can just hear it ticking like the 60 minute stopwatch you know i just hear it ticking i mean both on my life

Saving the Creepy...

 sex is on a stopwatch these days now I you know I I like a quickie as much as the next person but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained from slow sex from slowing down in the bedroom you know you tap into that those deeper sort

Praising slowness - Carl...

 in our brains. It contains the equivalent of a stopwatch telling us how many seconds elapsed, a clock counting the hours of the day, and a calendar notifying us of the seasons. Each one is located in a different brain region.

How does your body know...

 The musician or musicians are invited to walk onto the stage with a stopwatch and open the score, which was actually purchased by the Museum of Modern Art -- the score, that is. And this score has not a single note written

Meklit Hadero: The...

 and my wife holding a stopwatch to make sure that each girl had precisely one minute on the toy. So if you're anything like me or my girls, the last thing that upset you probably also had to do with unfairness.

The surprising...

 This repetitive or periodic motion is characteristic of waves. Then you notice something else using a stopwatch, you measure the time it takes for the piece of cork

What is color? - Colm...

 Jared so you are experiencing it firsthand with us get your stopwatch is ready