How native speakers pronounce “thing”

It was like they were doing it with me, sort of, which was the coolest thing that I've ever done. And then eventually,

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

that are live-streaming them 24 hours a day. But the beautiful thing about these live cameras is our animals are all blissfully unaware

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

out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me the heaviness of being

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

don't lose faith I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did you've got to find what

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

That doesn't mean my reserves of joy can't be regularly topped up and updated. Because joy is not just a fanciful thing; it's a whimsical, powerful tool.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) Actually, do you know that old philosophical thing, "If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it happen?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) And the third thing about intelligence is, it's distinct.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And so you're thinking having high cholesterol isn't the best thing, and so the doctor says, "You know, I'd like to give you a drug

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

then 10 seconds on that then 15 seconds on the other thing not surprisingly all that gear grinding

Slow Thinking

I can look and see whatever I want to see. So the thing that allowed me to do this is called a dock. So this is the dock here.

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

I don't need a person on scene, and it turns the drone into a software-defined thing. So I can fly it here, and the software will keep me safe.

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

Drones enable us to have a complete digital picture of the grid to prevent this kind of thing from happening. And if it does happen,

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

printmaking program, ambitious young art-loving thing that I was. I had flown from Iowa City to Chicago

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

I decided that given the circumstances, the only thing I could do was listen.

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

he kept showing up because God's love was the greatest thing he had ever known, and he wanted to share it.

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

has an inordinate impact on who you will become. But what we hear less about is that there's such a thing as adult development,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

The best advice I ever got was five words: Do the next right thing. It's really hard to be a good person.

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

It's hard to do all the things right. It's pretty easy to do the next right thing. And if you do that,

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

Meaning, in the worst of times, when really bad things happen, that's when I really want to do the next right thing. That helped me through one of the hardest periods

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

almost constantly, just throughout the day. And the main thing they're doing on those social media platforms is watching

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

In every minute of every day during that period, I thought, I'm going to do the next right thing. I'm not going to do things that are going to come back and hurt me or haunt me.

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

And I think that applies to all of us. The fifth thing that you control is you control your destiny. You control where you're going.

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

that they tell us, almost it's the most common thing we hear, we hear laughter in the hallways again.

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

we have to avoid focusing on what is normal. There's no such thing as normal when we're talking about two unique individuals

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