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that it would all work out okay it was pretty scary at the time but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

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that it would all work out okay it was pretty scary at the time but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

that they do of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college but it was very very

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I was in college but it was very very clear looking backwards 10 years later again you can't connect the dots looking

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

clear looking backwards 10 years later again you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

forward you can only connect them looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

what you do if you haven't found it yet keep looking and don't settle as with all matters of the heart you'll know

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

better as the years roll on so keep looking don't settle my third story is about

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

that's about how many seconds the average Museum visitor spends looking at a work of art

Running

my typewriter down, stood there lopsided looking at my ticket when a young man walked up and asked me if I needed help.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

the child's attachment system, which is looking for who in my environment is the person who responds to me,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

I'd never seen them communicate so well. They said that they were looking forward to every weekend that they got to spend together.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

is the difference in values between arriving on time and arriving looking and feeling your best. Neither one is wrong.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

And when that thief was about to lift the lid on the glitter bomb, not a single one of you was looking down or was on your phones. I had your undivided attention.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

We learned about it when doctors Li and Fraumeni were looking at families, and they realized that these families

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

My colleague came to me and said, "Kevin, would you mind looking after this patient for me?" I said, "Why, you know the right thing to do as well as I do.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into. And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward. It was going back, all the way back.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

And when you're pulled over for those roadside drug tests, it's the THC that they're looking for. The other well-known cannabinoid is cannabidiol, or CBD.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

Again, we need more evidence looking at the effects of using cannabis or cannabinoids in the doses and the populations that use it medicinally.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

"can AI be conscious," we need to start by looking within ourselves at the makeup of our own human minds.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

VOS: It hasn't been a good one, I have to say this, and especially if we're looking at the past couple of days after I finished my mandate, which I just finished.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

I added support for images, yeah, but even that took hours. So I was looking at the typing indicator, and then the agent responded.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

it found that it was audio, but a weird format, so it converted it. And then it was looking for something to translate the audio, but I didn't have it installed.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

(Laughter) And I was looking at it the whole night. People were talking with it,

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

There are the someday singles, they're looking for their person, sometimes waiting hopelessly.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

But of single adults in the United States, half have other priorities. They're not looking for love or lust, whether for now or forever. And they're channeling their time and their energy and intention

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

helping us imagine how much more we could ask of our platonic relationships. Which is true, but another way of looking at it is they're doing something retro,

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

and I was then handed a 39-page report brimming with blind quotes. I can tell you're looking forward to hearing the results. Sadists.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

Next time you notice yourself going down the toilet, if nobody's looking, put your hand on your heart and talk to yourself the way you would talk to a good friend.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

But you have this habit when you're concentrating of looking up and to the right, and so you spent half the talk kind of staring at the ceiling

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

Their, sort of, energy affects you a lot more when they're the only person that you're looking to for support. And so what happens is like,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

that you no longer see them. It's when I'm looking at my partner from a comfortable distance, where this person that is already so familiar, so known,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

mystery is not about traveling to new places, but it's about looking with new eyes. And so, when I see my partner on his own or her own,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

and I went through it through a bifurcation by looking, actually, at trauma, which is the other side.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And I looked at it, looking at the community that I had grown up in, which was a community in Belgium, all Holocaust survivors,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

Only-audio interactions produce lower-quality connections. And third, and this was surprising and something I wasn't even looking for, but the final thing I found was the effect of burnout.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

our direct reports, our TEDx audience. What are you looking at? And this brings us back to feeling awkward.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

a physical facility to get all of this work done. And people are looking to us, the Female Athlete Program, to build this center.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

We're further along than anywhere else in the world, but they're looking to us so that we can be the model to help them build it elsewhere.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

What are they doing right? What you're looking at is an aerial view of Villagrande. It's a village at the epicenter of the blue zone

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

Here he is with his sons Angelo and Domenico, both in their 70s and looking after their father, and who were quite frankly very suspicious of me and my daughter

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

"You just don't understand, do you? Looking after this man is a pleasure. It's a huge privilege for me.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

For example, the camera on your laptop is at the top of the screen, so for example, when you're looking into the screen, you're not actually making eye contact.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

you're not actually making eye contact. So something as simple as even just looking into the camera can increase those neurotransmitters,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

as it was about feeling healthy, and that feeling good went hand in hand with looking good. This work led to the development of Project Brotherhood,

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

that we need a fundamentally different way of looking at healthcare. We simply need a healthcare system

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

We simply need a healthcare system that moves beyond just looking at the symptoms that bring people into clinics,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

about what the reaction to that writing is going to be, from now on. And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and she said it would continue on across the landscape, looking, as she put it "for another poet." And then there were these times --

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

she said that there were moments where she would almost miss it, right? So, she's running to the house and she's looking for the paper and the poem passes through her,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But what I mean is, you probably wouldn't find me in a museum. Rather, if you were looking for me, you'd probably have to go to the mountains,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

years coding these stories for more than a hundred variables looking for patterns that can help all of us survive and

Linear

these clumpings could be coincidences but I think a better way of looking at them is that our immune system gets

Lifequakes

and flipped it into selfie mode. The face looking back at me was a face, but not exactly my face. A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over,

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

So I stopped. I stopped looking for the perfect model, and I started looking at the strengths of the communities

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

I stopped looking for the perfect model, and I started looking at the strengths of the communities and the people around me.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

before you share your story share what you're looking for all three of these tools shedding

Share

many of which we had no idea existed, and looking a lot like the ones on the right of this map, that's some rooftop solar.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

MethaneSAT and other satellites are already scanning the globe, looking at all those different places where oil and gas production is taking place.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

Already, Japan and South Korea have formed a coalition and are also looking at methane emissions as a condition to access their own oil and gas import market.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

fubbing the phenomenon of snubbing the person you're with by looking at your phone is rampant these days

Connect

or play a game together now some families are looking for ways to save the baby lighter schedules while

Family

explain why couples around the world are looking for ways to slow down together in bed and beyond

Romance

and they found that, over the course of a single year, looking at only the domains of the highest value for AI training, the number that was restricted via opt-outs or terms of service

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

(Applause) I did enjoy just looking across the faces of this esteemed audience as that song was playing.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

in a similar vein the slow art movement encourages us to spend more time looking at a single work

Leisure

kept her metacognitively engaged, always looking for critiques, alternatives and lateral moves. We have been studying the effects of tools like this.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Some admit that they just don't care. Half of American employees are currently looking for a different job. Think about that.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

My friend identified a project she wished she had already completed, not something she was looking forward to doing. Have you ever set a goal you wish you had already completed

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

We care about the way almost as much as we are looking forward to the destination. In our research, we found that most goals are abandoned,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

Ever wondered why Chicago diners would circle the block for 30 minutes looking for free parking, but will not think twice before spending the money

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

So, they'll hand her their credit card without even looking up from their phone. And while she's saying this, I'm realizing I've done that.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

And I took this at face value until one afternoon when I was 16. I went into their medicine cabinet looking for something and I found an unmarked pill bottle with dosage instructions.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

I challenge all of you to start a meaningful practice of looking in the mirror and loving what you see.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

do breathwork and be the best versions of ourselves. We're looking at meditation practices, sleep practices, exercise practices. How can we optimize and be the best versions of ourselves?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

"So, then it worked," I said. I don't think this is the answer he was looking for. In fact, I don't think this is the answer that any of us are looking for

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I don't think this is the answer he was looking for. In fact, I don't think this is the answer that any of us are looking for when it comes to love.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

SA: What I was going to say is I totally understand that. I totally understand looking at this and saying this is an unbelievable change coming to the world.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

landscape of global political landscape I am looking at you just Trudeau who resigned from the prime ministership

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

question because we love those who are looking for Solutions not just detailing the problems and I asked you this last

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

And that is why some food innovators are looking to pinpoint certain problems with approaches that may take more

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

But a lot of the time it was also just survival. And that’s what I mean about them looking like hostages. There wasn't a choice, it feels to me,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

So a partner in the middle of a conversation may be sitting there and looking totally calm on the outside, but inside, their heart rates

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

then this will happen, this will happen." Anxiety is just looking at every worst-case scenario, almost, you know. So I think even if you were super anxious,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

and I have someone who might warm our car up in the morning.” But then, you know, we're looking 10 years down the line, you're like, "My husband's not romantic."

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

don't necessarily work with law enforcement. And when we were looking at what the ecosystem was that we wanted to convert into something more trauma-informed,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

without reckoning their cost. But there is wisdom in looking at the price tags attached to our marital decisions

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

And at first it was just Castleman's patients, and then we started looking at diseases related to Castleman’s, other rare diseases.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

But for the purposes of this talk, we're going to be looking at legal marriages because they're the ones more readily identified by researchers.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

feel like, you know, I really feel like going and looking for bugs today or I just want to get better at my free

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

And then they're looking over the change. And you

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

you have two kids together and they're holding hands and they're both looking left, right, left, and there's no cars

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

coming, they're listening for it and they're looking for it. They're humans.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

That's what I assume of most adults in the neighborhood that they're looking out for me as opposed to, you know, they

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

all the kids get used to coming to the park and looking both ways and the parents get used to it too.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

He was so generous with his time. And I remember looking at my cousin, and I was thinking, he's spending his time with us,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

It is the actual village where I spent the first 10 years of my life. So do you know what I saw when I was looking at images, when I looked at the moon?

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

And when we sat there together -- When I was looking at these images and I remember thinking, this is so different from what I thought.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

But what I realized was, it's not just love that we're looking for here. It's the control of it.

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

Fourth, someone has something you thought you knew everything about, but they're introducing a new angle of looking at it. And I tell people that this is where great stories start from --

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay