Naomi Alderman

People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win.

English Novelist

Lzzy Hale

One of the things that helps my vocal health immensely out on the road is stopping all my eating/drinking at least four hours before I go to bed. I actually set a timer after my last meal so I can't cheat. This is to prevent acid reflux when I lay down in my bunk at night.

American Musician

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

American Artist

Naseeruddin Shah

I am totally for first timers. I always hear them seriously. I have done so many films with first timers, and I've never regretted it.

Indian Actor

Jessica Savitch

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

American Journalist

Delia Smith

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

British Entertainer

Momo Hirai

I always keep a small timer next to me to tell me how many seconds I have to wash each part of my face.

Japanese Musician

Ron Rivera

When you become a first timer in a thing, there's no way you can know everything.

American Coach

Bob Monkhouse

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

English Comedian

Conan O'Brien

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

American Entertainer

A timer helps you divide your work into intervals, promoting productivity.

Time Management

Kitchen timers ensure food is cooked for the correct duration, preventing overcooking or undercooking.

Cooking Precision

Timers are useful during workouts to track exercise and rest periods.

Exercise Routines

Timers on devices can automate tasks like turning off/on, according to your schedule.

Automating Electronics

Using a timer on electronic devices allows you to enjoy content without the worry of missing out.

Convenience

Timers in sports ensure accurate measurement of performance and competition fairness.

Accuracy in Sports

Event timers help maintain schedules and transitions during organized events.

Event Coordination

 when you'd otherwise not be thinking about them. A second tactic online retailers use is scarcity. Many sites now tell you how many other customers are also viewing the same item, making it seem like that item is very popular, and it's likely to go quickly. Similarly, websites will use a timer for your basket, pushing and pushing the message

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 of some of the other folks I didn't get a chance to show you. This instrument came up in those pictures. It's called the mouth bow. It is definitely the first stringed instrument ever in the world, and still played in the Southern mountains. Now, the old timers didn't take a fancy guitar string and make anything like this.

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 Number always use presenter mode, or Ovation, or presenter tools. It lets you know exactly where you're going, helps you pace yourself, gives you a timer, the whole bit. Number always use remote control. Have you seen me touch the computer? No. Why not? Because I'm using remote control. Always use remote control.

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 And I want to tell you how we were able to make sense out of this code. So what we were looking for is, first of all, system function calls, because we know what they do. And then we were looking for timers and data structures and trying to relate them to the real world --

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 cognitive load I still know my audience is here here's my timer here's my screen and here's the camera where's if you're just asked to imagine this or see it on the screen it's a lot harder so could the illusion of moving to a new perspective help and that the deeds what

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 little village he's called home for most of his life this is our wall of just old timers folks that spent their lives living out here there are some of these people that were here when I was just a little boy I can see their faces my

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 and get away from a populated area said it let's go hey rich guide me in trade getting the truck the plan is to get his entire family to the desert bunker in less than 40 minutes shreya starts a timer yep all right hit

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 for you did that last round feel harder if you said yes keep this in mind the only thing that changed is that we tried to stress you out by telling you that it would be harder and adding a timer in

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 Onboard the spacecraft, the astronauts preset the timer, enclose themselves in capsules, and fall into a deep hibernation

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 was fast he'd be very large but he's an old timer