How native speakers pronounce “quite”

cleared away sorry to be so dramatic but it's quite true your time is limited so don't waste

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time. (Laughing) Isn't that true?

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree standing outside a forest,

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

Many experts think that conscious AI is possible. Quite a few think it's inevitable, and some, some think it's here already. I think they're wrong.

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

Some we would have in our regular spa kit. Some of them are quite obvious. (Breathing)

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

Anybody single here? I mean, there should be quite a few of you, because in the US, the percentage of American adults who have never been married

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

and figure out something that will work for both of us. So they tend to be quite healing friends. They tend to be --

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

Desire needs space. And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract. But then I took a question with me.

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

And there's usually a desire to be treated like an adult, but they can't quite let go of their action figures. You might imagine that it looks a little like this.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

They say the grade levels you teach are most reflective of your personality. So I'm not quite sure what it says about me that I later went on to found a middle school for boys.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and how we spend those hours matters. And yet, our current relationship to work isn't quite working. A recent study found

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

both in their 70s and looking after their father, and who were quite frankly very suspicious of me and my daughter who came along with me on this research trip,

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

at the University of Chicago Business School is quite amazing because it tells us a simple thing. If somebody hears your voice,

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

they think you're smarter. I mean, that's quite a simple thing. Now, to return to the beginning,

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

fewer visits to the E.R., better health? Well, quite simply, it started with that question: "Veronica, where do you live?"

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

kind of conversation between Tom and the strange, external thing that was not quite Tom. When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

transforms the way they practice medicine. That process is a quite simple process. It's one, two and three.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

in a creative life. But maybe it doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And those three small children haven't given you a moment alone in quite some time. When you finally get that moment, you have to decide,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

those are the most underrated muscles to be quite honest. And we all have them.

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

people on the planet, people who are quite literally like have lifted the heaviest weights imaginable, pushing the

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

the cost per viewer is much higher than for content 1.0 and 2.0. So even the economics of making hits might look quite different than for content 1.0 and 2.0.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

of the results of 108 studies, meaning that these findings are quite robust. And of course, the debate is also much more complicated than this

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

that we obtained by combining all the three datasets together. The results were quite interesting because what we found was that in the first experiment,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

it's sort of an uncanny valley of cartoons. They're not quite there. But it is interesting.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

that are labeled physiologically unlivable for human beings are due to expand quite dramatically by 2070, unless we act to cover all of these vast, heavily populated areas.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

And when you compound a number like that, it makes quite a difference. Here are all the past projections from the International Energy Agency

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

And here is the reality of what has actually happened. It really is quite extraordinary. (Applause)

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

and the cost of all of these clean-energy technologies has come down quite dramatically, particularly solar. And even more dramatic is utility-scale batteries, 87 percent down.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

More than half of that was in China, actually. Four hundred and forty-four gigawatts is quite a lot. It's more than the power capacity of Japan.

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

The bad thing is that they are distributed, they're quite small installations, and sometimes they look a lot like greenhouses or skylights.

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

by more than 80 percent. Quite simple. Just serving people and delivering quality food, produce.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

and have adopted into US things. So we're in a situation now which I think is quite tenuous, where the US is largely driving, for many, many good reasons,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

The consensus in the industry right now is the open-source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

than 19-century royalty. Others might be asking, quite reasonably, but what about global warming and endangered species?

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

Now, actually, it's worse than that, because it's often quite easy to picture the near-term downsides. I mean, just read any article about AI.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

Is it really the happy people that are grateful? We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

I would say a prayer of thanksgiving. Prayer is not quite the right word. I'm agnostic, so instead of thanking God,

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

And in return, Ed showed me how to taste coffee like a pro. And it is quite a ritual. You take your spoon and you dip it in the coffee

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

so we can both learn. At work, when you're not quite killing it, remove your ego and you will be better able to learn.

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

to thank them for their role in my coffee. And some of them, quite honestly -- not that into it.

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

We were very lucky to find them a house, but it needed quite a bit of work. So my friends came out on evenings and weekends

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

SA: Very close to what I'm wearing, you know, it's good. CA: I've never seen you quite that animated. SA: No, I'm not that animated of a person.

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

and sure enough, it gave a talk that wasn't quite as good as the talk she gave, but it was pretty impressive.

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

But what I have done instead is turn my relationship into the kind of myth I don't quite believe in. And what I want, what perhaps I will spend my life wanting,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

Software development has already been pretty transformed. Like it’s quite amazing how different the process of creating software is now than it was two years ago.

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

SA: I have learned more about how the government works. I don't think this is quite the right policy proposal. CA: What is the right policy proposal?

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

have society as a whole weigh in a bit and say, no, you know, we don't want this to happen quite as fast. It's too disruptive.

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

it's going to be a center-right government that's going to be quite close with all the European leaders at

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

close with all the European leaders at the EU level and quite close to macron macron is in big trouble in 2027 but he

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

runs foreign policy still until then and he's going to be quite cohesive uh with the Germans and with the Europeans in

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

of having two different languages amongst partners, but also quite a few challenges that monolingual couples don't necessarily have to face.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

Sometimes a joke is funny in one language, but it falls flat in another. Or it could be quite offensive. Now linguistically,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

"shrimp on a barbie" isn't actually funny to Australians. It actually quite annoys them. My husband doesn't understand why the super cringey,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

well, it's the one who speaks the language better, right? That can be one aspect, but it's not quite that simple. There is many more layers and facets to it.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

or family. BR: I mean, I guess the big problem was you never quite feel safe, opening up.

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

we might not be ready for that because we don't quite love ourselves that much. I don't think we love humanity that much.

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

So it is quite traditional in my country to walk into a room and to greet. But not just to greet.

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

And in it, he says, Westerners are often quite surprised by our capacity as Africans for talking to one another

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

you can see the face of a man on the moon." And I remember being quite flabbergasted and thinking, "There is no man on the moon.

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

give all of us a language for talking about a subject that's quite awkward and uncomfortable to discuss; empower a whole front line, namely friends, to help;

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

Odd that the modest brain never imagined its unique value in research, maybe saving someone else from what it is they're not quite sure I have. Flattering, that.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

is going to give them something that is that bad. You have to push quite hard for it to be that bad. GM: I think the troll farms have to work for it,

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

♫ To do such a thing when I'm quite well aware ♫ ♫ Little boys do not like

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

♫ And a pony all my own ♫ ♫ A little lamb quite clean and tame ♫ ♫ That I can take to town. ♫

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

as opposed to today's language model. Some of them is really not there quite yet. CA: You use the analogy that we can’t get to the Moon

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

due to the scale of the compute and data. However, there's a quality of learning that is still not quite there. And the thing is,

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

and I started to pretend to listen. Because, quite frankly, my advice monster already knew exactly what it wanted to tell her.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

So many of us think that good sex is something that should happen to us, that it’s in someone else’s hands, quite literally, We expect a partner, current or future, to be the magical unlock.

The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | TED · TED

as part of an incredible scientific study. There's nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. Collecting information on thousands of children

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

so, no other country in the world is tracking generations of children in quite this detail. These are some of the best-studied people on the planet,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

was strongly linked to children going on to do well at school later on. In fact, quite small things that parents do are associated with good outcomes for children.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

Now, as you can imagine, the answers aren't quite as simple as that. For one thing, this study looks at what happens

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

He’d walk over 75,000 kilometers in total to complete his journey. But it’s clear you don’t have to take quite this many steps to see an impact.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

And while my college predicament may have been unusual, I do think this experience is quite universal. Because, one, I’m far from the first person

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

it's the greatest chess-playing entity that's ever existed. And, you know, it's quite amazing, like, looking at that live on something that you know well,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

and they inspire my life's work every single day. But quite frankly, they'll speak for themselves. Over the years, I've never shied away from highlighting risks

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

and intriguing all at once. To be quite honest, it's pretty surreal. But step back,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

If it's an accident, you wouldn't say that someone did it. In English, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, "I broke my arm."

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

So it works, but I'm saying, we're still not quite there yet. So I want to come back to Moravec's paradox.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

This is interesting because quite often our first luxury purchase is sunglasses or a lipstick. In the kind of near future,

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

isn't actually here for a while yet. Some people are quite excited that it's not going to be here for a while yet.

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

may be rooted in something that, thanks to the pandemic, we have all come to know quite well, and that is RNA. I think these days, everyone has a basic understanding of how RNA works.

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED · TED

which is our current best description of nature at its smallest scales, and quite frankly, one of the most successful achievements of humankind --

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

Alzheimer's disease -- tells us something quite different. Alzheimer's begins by affecting short-term memory.

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

It's as if they are recalling their own stories in ways that are not quite accurate. It's important, at this stage,

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

And when the construction goes wrong, we perceive our own stories in ways that are not quite real. From the narrative self, let's talk about our body.

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

And sometimes, the construction goes wrong, and we perceive our own bodies in ways that are not quite real. Let's take another aspect of our bodily self.

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

Miguel was confused by this as well and really quite embarrassed by it. "What's wrong with me?" he asked me in our session.

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

the forest and all its inhabitants -- it seems quite natural that we feel emotional pain. Doesn't it?

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

But I noticed that my husband, he pushed the stroller quite differently with one hand kind of off to the side and kind of

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

and the one that I feel is most important and possibly counterintuitive, is that the stakes can be quite high. Your personal risk tolerance doesn't matter.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

and then took a mini course on logic were quite willing to label their original performances as awful. That may be why people with a moderate amount of experience or expertise

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books. But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

and in many ways I think of myself now as African. Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

who once told me that my novel was not "authentically African." Now, I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

that it had failed in a number of places, but I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

nor a lobbyist. She'd probably tell you she's quite unremarkable, but she's having the most remarkable impact.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

Because I work in health and I've appeared in the media, I've ended up interacting with quite a lot of conspiracy theorists. (Laughter)

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

not just pull us further into a theory. You can always tell quite quickly in a discussion when someone’s trying to defend their position

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED