Prosenjit Chatterjee

There used to be times when I used to be bothered about box office, director, producer, the actress... If those ticks were marked, I used to say 'yes' to a film. Later on, my focus absolutely changed. Now if a character stays with me for two to three nights, I say 'yes' to the film.

Indian Actor

Robin Ince

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

English Comedian

Shaggy

I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try to put stories into songs and try to make it as entertaining as possible.

Jamaican Musician

Troy Carter

Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.

American Producer

Steven Knight

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.

English Director

Kirk Cousins

Sometimes when I get frustrated and ticked off, there's a little more fire there. It can also get you in trouble if you're not careful, but I think within reason it can help you.

American Athlete

Jacinda Ardern

Never feel like you have to tick all of the boxes on everything to be able to feel like you can do a job. I have heard it said many times before, and it is so true.

New Zealander Politician

Georg Buchner

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

German Dramatist

Curtis Joseph

Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Canadian Athlete

Nicholas Hoult

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

English Actor

The word 'tick' mimics the sound it describes, often used for clocks and timers.

Onomatopoeic origin

'Tick' can suggest a steady pace or rhythm, similar to a heartbeat or metronome.

Rhythm indication

'Tick' is a sign of correctness or completion, especially in checklists or exams.

Approval signal

A tick is simple and universally recognizable, representing a positive response without language barriers.

Visual simplicity

'Tick' refers to an insect that can transmit diseases; caution is advised when mentioned.

Health hazard caution

Ticks are often associated with natural, outdoor environments like forests and grasslands.

Nature association

The ticking of a clock or timer can create a sense of urgency or passing time.

Sense of urgency

Used in instructions to specify actions like selecting options on forms or tests.

Instruction following

Ticking tasks off a list feels rewarding and shows progress.

Task completion

 We usually think of rhythm as an element of music, but it's actually found everywhere in the world around us, from the ocean tides to our own heartbeats, rhythm is essentially an event repeating regularly over time. Even the ticking of a clock itself is a sort of rhythm. But for musical rhythm,

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 going to break through and all of a sudden that ceiling of ice that we've been working underneath would be gone so we felt that there was probably uh quite a limited amount of time that we might be able to film this so the clock was ticking winter is reaching down from the cold world above

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 are just picking up the objective reality that's out there. Instead, our brains are sampling just a little bit of the world. Now, across the animal kingdom, different animals pick up on different parts of reality. So in the blind and deaf world of the tick,

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 could potentially clean it I'm ready for my spa treatment come in and exfoliate me I'm not gonna eat you I'm I'm at peace and come do you things for me they underscore how everybody plays a role everyone is what makes this system tick

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 That's because of circadian rhythms, the internal timekeepers that tick away inside many living things. These biological clocks allow organisms to keep track of time and pick up on environmental cues that help them adapt.

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 are the things that are also the source of your strength. What's going to be the outcome today? Well, all of us know the dozen sorts of ticking time bombs going on in the modern world, time bombs that have fuses

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 something is literally draining the life out of them it is the winter tick as full and bloated as its host is starving it's estimated that ticks can drain a moose calf of half its blood

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 the world in search of that thing that really made me tick so spoiler alert for you I found it but more importantly on the journey I came across an idea that I

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 to run further, fly faster or swim deeper. But the thing that ties them and us together is the planets loudest ticking clock. The arctic sea ice.