Sentence examples for tick as a from inspiring English sources

Their proposal was that an established poet such as Robert Pinsky would interview Jewel onstage about her processes and inspirations, what made her tick as a poet.

Tell me what makes you tick as a manager.

He knows what makes me tick as a bowler and we work together well.

"The problem with me is, no one truly understands how I tick as a person, even my wife".

In her thoughtful article, "Judy Garland as a Force of Nature" [June 14], Camille Paglia gets right much of what made Garland tick as a performer.

I know that I write pop songs, and I know that I am meant to be doing what I am doing because I realised it made me tick as a little boy.

Clymer is preternaturally calm and sumptuously bearded, a self-described "old soul," who ticks as reliably as a chronometer granted the all-important Geneva Seal.

After Lev departs in acrimony, Anna is left alone, and we hope for clarification at last of what makes her tick as an artist.

I wanted to know what made him tick as an artist and what made him successful as an entrepreneur.

It's somewhat ironic then, that for a man who lives in data, there is actually very little known about what makes Fayyad tick as an entrepreneur and how he shaped the companies he worked for.

I had the privilege of talking with her about what makes her tick as an author, how she keeps the ideas coming and the power of friendship, romance and love.