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Get in control of your stress before it takes control of you.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it takes the average person suffering with a mental illness over ten years to ask for help.
BG: Which is understandable, the brain is delicate, etc. JB: Yes, it is, but it takes a long time and a lot of patience and almost a professional team to do it, you know?
So it takes, already, a long time to select the patients, do the treatment and evaluate if it's useful to do this kind of treatment.
The lawyer takes you and your 99 relatives to a secret room in the mansion that contains 100 lockers, each hiding a single word.
And for the computers that often act as extensions of ourselves, memory plays much the same role, whether it's a two-hour movie, a two-word text file, or the instructions for opening either, everything in a computer's memory takes the form of basic units called bits, or binary digits.
The time this takes is known as the memory's latency.
SRAM is the fastest memory in a computer system, but also the most expensive, and takes up three times more space than DRAM.
And look, I know, it takes effort and energy to actually pay attention to someone, but if you can't do that, you're not in a conversation.
It takes about two years of training for already fluent bilingual professionals to expand their vocabulary and master the skills necessary to become a conference interpreter.
It takes a little time, but after a few months, one day the floodgates open and there's a rush, and I find myself standing in my office filled with an unfamiliar melody, full on groove inside me, and around me, and it sends me spinning with ideas, and the humming road is open, and I can drive it and drive it, and I love working again.
While you're outside, you can look inside any five boxes before security takes you back to the tour bus.
The third lion takes the raft back to the right bank where the wildebeest are waiting.
The solution that involves sending both lions on the first step works similarly, and also takes eleven crossings.
As soon as his plane touches the ground, she takes off, this time flying east.
That's because to create these new, weird images, your brain takes familiar pieces and assembles them in new ways, like a collage made from fragments of photos.
Are you ready to go with that and be what that takes?
Mastering any physical skill, be it performing a pirouette, playing an instrument, or throwing a baseball, takes practice.
There are many theories that attempt to quantify the number of hours, days, and even years of practice that it takes to master a skill.
Now we also learned that building the right amount of trust takes the right amount of disclosure.
Sloths have a multi-chambered stomach that takes up a third of their body, and depending on the species, they can spend five to seven days, or even weeks, processing a meal.
If his plan is rejected, he walks the plank, too, and Charlotte takes his place.
It's often said in Silicon Valley, no one even takes you seriously unless you've had two failed start-ups.
Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.
Unfortunately, not every host country in the world takes the approach Uganda has taken.
Because in India we do not have a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase like in the developed countries.
As soon as the leukocytes detect them, it takes only minutes for the body’s protective immune response to kick in.
So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, "Actually, let's read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened.
It takes up the whole stage.
You tell the car where you want to go, you push a button and it takes you from point A to point B by itself.
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