How native speakers pronounce “taking”

made the minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

So we're just getting started. Our next step is taking this Alveus approach to the wild. We're building a new facility

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

And this concept of drone as first responder is taking off across the country. So it started with a few agencies.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

Iowa Writers' Workshop. I was also taking classes in the printmaking program, ambitious young

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

To explore places that most people will never get to see. And to be a witness to the change that's currently taking place. I've had the chance to use more than 30 different kinds of submarines.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

more than just what we’re putting into the ocean, what we’re taking out, how we are stripping the ocean of the wild creatures

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

we have dewilded the ocean, taking these wild animals to markets globally. Industrial fishing is simply too efficient,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Their fleets move like cities across the high seas, taking and marketing wildlife. We almost succeeded in exterminating the great whales,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Here on this Esri map, you can see where action is taking place. These are not just dots on a map.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

That puts you ahead of 95 percent on Earth in terms of taking ownership of what you want to do with your own life. Man, I'm blessed.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

I was done, and I got up to leave, and she stopped me and she said, "Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me this morning." I've forgotten a lot of details

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

who were extensively screened to have no other major health condition and to be pretty much taking no other medication. We really need more research,

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

And I think it became this great way for people to talk about something that they'd never felt comfortable taking about publicly. And that is wonderful when it's about something as goofy as tonsil stones,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

that rewards people for donating to charity versus penaliz them by taking them further down on the Forbes list? (Applause)

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

sent me a trademark claim. I had to rename the whole thing while it was taking off. You know, they even tried to push me away from the lobster.

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

that has ten agents that are all specialized, taking over various parts of the business. We don't even have a name for what it might become,

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

is that AI researchers are doing all this great stuff, but they're taking all these great efforts to ensure safety and make sure nothing bad could happen.

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

How many people in your community are taking the safety issue seriously and want to use OpenClaw, for example, to find smarter ways?

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

But I am here to do the opposite of what the Taliban want. That is why I am taking every opportunity to show Afghan women speaking, singing, kicking a ball and standing up for their rights.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

When they engage in conflict, it’s all about perspective-taking. They're not like, "You do this, otherwise I'm going to be pissed off."

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

And you actually just enter that place where you stop being the good citizen who is taking care of things and being responsible. Responsibility and desire just butt heads.

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

you're laughing at their jokes, you're nodding, you're taking notes, you're fully engaging. That signals that you appreciate them and you care.

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

And as a result, our tolerance for professional risk-taking or any risk-taking, absolutely goes down.

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

our tolerance for professional risk-taking or any risk-taking, absolutely goes down. It goes down for big risks:

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

It goes down for big risks: things like negotiating a new job salary or taking a new job in general. But it also goes down for small, everyday risks:

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

You're setting the bar. You're taking action. You're adapting.

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

in a survey of over 2,000 college-educated women that they were significantly more comfortable taking risks that would benefit their group or company

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

Or at least I thought they did. But what I learned is when it comes to taking a risk in the moment, is that we allow our deep desire for other people to approve

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

And at work, the stakes feel high. We are taking risks in front of people, often with KPIs and success metrics on the line.

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

you're still setting the bar for what you want. You're still taking action towards that bar. You're still adapting.

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

And the world as we know it came to a screeching halt. We were taking care of our family, our friends, our patients. We lost loved ones.

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

whatever you'd like to call it, let's start taking the kinds of everyday actions that really bring it to life.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

to build this center. We really are the ones who are supposed to be taking this deep dive. But we need to be working together, and we need to have it all under one roof.

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

to help people deal with the stress response cycle. But just taking the example of a commute: you get out of your car or you get off the bus,

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

The problem isn't feeling, it's ruminating. Taking a two-minute interaction and replaying it for days, turning stress into a chronic problem.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

students felt a greater sense of satisfaction with studying, taking academic risks and just valuing the overall learning process. In addition, students felt more comfortable

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

In addition, students felt more comfortable taking on leadership roles inside and outside of the classroom. One thing to note that in each of these three C's

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

What you're seeing is the difference in brain activity between interacting in person and taking in static content. In orange, you see the brain areas that are associated with attention,

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

that we learn to internalize, perform for and optimize for. And then, by taking in all our data, the machines learn to perform us, in an endless feedback loop.

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

It's the best part of my job. Taking people underwater to witness such a wonder and so much life.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

looking at all those different places where oil and gas production is taking place. They're already delivering accurate methane data in near-real time,

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

There were so many people early on that tried to guide us into taking donated food, into using volunteer hours and trading board seats for money.

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

advocating that AI labs should halt the development of agentic AI systems that are capable of taking autonomous action. Yet that is precisely what the next frontier is for all these AI labs,

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

Is this ethical? Are people taking responsibility for this use of force? It's not to write off an entire category of technology,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

You learn from a range of sources, from other art to textbooks to taking lessons. Much of this you or someone else paid for,

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

finding ways to slow down at work for example taking breaks when one tech company took a hard look

Slow Work

that's why cities of all sizes are taking a leaf from the slow cities Playbook to Foster Community Spirit many are

Slow Spaces

Effectively, they'd have been reaching forward in time and taking almost everything we have in order to enrich themselves. Now, obviously, that's not how they understood what they were doing.

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

Psychologists talk about how gratitude is about taking a moment and holding on to it as long as possible. And slowing down time.

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

Others in the control group were invited to develop their skills. Who was more daring, taking the stage for longer? Well, as you can see,

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

because I would have flown in here on a private jet today instead of taking the subway like y'all. (Laughter)

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

people who gave money to charity were happier than those who did not, even after taking into account their own personal financial situation. And this correlation wasn't trivial.

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

But she felt so guilty for taking herself away from the climate change space to do something that is so trivial and so frivolous.

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

But I am asking you to start making stuff. Start taking up space. Leave a legacy, leave this world with something beautiful.

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

with something very beautiful to give this world. I need you to start taking it seriously. You are so needed.

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

there's a question of whether or not it should do that. And we're taking a much more permissive stance. There's a place where that starts to interact with real-world harms

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

Respect literally means to look again. So basically, it's the opposite of taking anyone, including yourself, for granted.

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

Congress under wraps and get her her cabinet taking the lead on all of this the easiest thing for them to do is kick

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

what gives you hope in 2025 well I mean first of all taking away the geopolitics the technology is a bright

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

They fight to understand. Julie: Fighting to understand means taking a conversation about an issue and going much deeper

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

how much her family and her friends were important to her precisely in what she was taking on, which is full-time parenthood.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

and what would be owed to Deb as a result of her taking on full-time parenthood. So, let's go back to Lisa and Andy.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

but I can't do that other thing. But I think taking those little tiny, bite-sized pieces, at least for me, I think that helps me be able to do this sort of stuff.

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

you sort of assume someone else is going to solve it and it sort of prevents you from taking action. But the type of hope that you're talking about

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

So, I think, um, by writing about my kid taking the subway by himself, uh, it was basically the subway.

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

foot got hurt and they like hid the fact that they were taking him up to the bathroom to wash off his foot and get

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

Oh, he's fine. just taking a shower, you know, and and none of them

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

what's the problem in in the culture, it's that we're taking the the childhood the child out of childhood and replacing

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

And thank you so much, Lenor, for for taking the time to chat with us. This is um has been great.

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

On the other hand, an engineer will learn how a car works by taking it completely apart and rebuilding it." Take, for example, the Human Genome Project,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

that there is a way to find a way to balance everybody's needs without taking other people down. MZ: So how are we going to convince people to do this,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

like the lost prevent the found from escaping the mire, and the degraded stop the enlightened from taking us higher. But no matter what you hear from the mouths of these liars,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

what if the ticket inspector comes and needs a ticket if it's going to be taking up a seat? So I wrote to the Transit Authority,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

I'm sure you've all heard them. “Robots are taking our jobs.” “No one’s going to have a job in the future.”

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

is reviving these people's words. Taking them off the dead, flat pages. Bringing them to life,

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

than "it's inevitable." The path that we're taking, not AI. And so the ability for us to choose something else

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

Uncontroversial things like restricting AI companions for kids so that kids are not manipulated into taking their own lives. Having basic things like product liability,

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

and using AI itself to create new and better decision-making processes. Taking advantage of the things that language models can do that humans can’t,

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

many rounds in the ring with darkness, taking good notes. So I thought rather than get up and give any type of recipe for success

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

It's not sad. It's not particularly happy. It's just an impassive creature taking whatever life sends its way. You might not think of the ultimate competitor, say, Bill Belichick,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

this is visualizing the worst-case scenarios, in detail, that you fear, preventing you from taking action, so that you can take action to overcome that paralysis.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

It could be anything. For me, it was taking my first vacation in four years and stepping away from my business for a month to go to London,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

You can see we're playing up the fears and really taking a conservative look at the upside. So if you attempted whatever you're considering,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

one of the most important things you can get good at in your career is taking risks. Or, as I like to call it, jumping off cliffs.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

is surviving the fall. Jumping off a cliff is taking a giant step backwards into the land of being a beginner again.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

"I bought a gun," "I stopped taking the medication," "I can't stop making online bets."

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

or should you be eating tofu? When it comes to supplements, should you be taking them? How about these hormones or resveratrol?

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

Because I have a feeling that not everyone here is so deeply invested in taking the cutest selfie every day. But that's OK, that's OK.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

It was a passion, it was a simple passion of taking a photo for someone else that they would love. And it's an honorable passion.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

teaching them their letters and numbers, taking them on trips and visits. Reading to children every day seems to be really important, too.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

In 2013, Vancouver city officials opened the Comox-Helmcken Greenway, taking a two-kilometer road and converting it into a walkable and bikeable space.

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

And all of a sudden, the future is truly beautiful. I imagine taking my granddaughter to see the reefs. I imagine taking my grandson to see the ice.

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

I imagine taking my granddaughter to see the reefs. I imagine taking my grandson to see the ice. I imagine a world where we don't have to run from hurricanes or wildfires.

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

This, by the way, is a second. Studies show waiting that long before taking action lets your brain work better.

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

For years I have been saying that taking a picture is not the same as seeing and understanding. Today, I would like to add to that.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

It took nature millions of years to evolve spatial intelligence, which depends on the eye taking light, project 2D images on the retina

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

As the progress of spatial intelligence accelerates, a new era in this virtuous cycle is taking place in front of our eyes. This back and forth is catalyzing robotic learning,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

real or virtual. And as that future is taking shape, it will have a profound impact to many lives.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

For the past decade, my lab has been taking some of the first steps in applying AI to tackle challenges that impact patient outcome

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

Where are these robots? What's taking so long? I mean, we have our tricorders,

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