How native speakers pronounce “true”

loved what I did you've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers your work is going

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

it's quite true your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I won’t argue with you. I know that that's true. No one makes it through their whole life intact.

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

Suddenly, degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

a little slow and not in a good way it's true that speed is fun sexy beguiling it delivers a delicious even addictive jolt

Running

that was hanging from the ceiling, which is true. More importantly,

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

15 years later, I can attest that this is true. We have raised up a

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

like "twixters" and "kidults." (Laughing) It's true! As a culture, we have trivialized

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

you need a plan and not quite enough time. (Laughing) Isn't that true? So what do you think happens

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

that you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends. Now this was true for her growing up, but as a twentysomething, soon Emma would pick her family

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

a funny term, but it might really be true because the adolescent brain is always

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

and you just have to go with the current. It's not true. You get to control where you go.

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

My pain, their pain, everybody's pain. But I learned something early that I wish was not true. When identities are shaped by loss,

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

We’d like to be open and honest in our relationships, but all too often keep our true selves to ourselves. If being socially connected is so darn good for us,

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

These conversations go much better than people expect that they will. This is also true when we have people who disagree about the most divisive political issues that divide us today

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

(Laughter) It's a very true story. (Laughter)

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

"Akeelah and the Bee," my Nickelodeon TV show "True Jackson VP." Jordan Peele's "Nope."

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

I could embody joy -- even briefly. I could be “True Jackson, VP,” “Working at a grown-up job never really knew I could work this hard.”

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

And I answered the worry. That lesson is true for all of us. You don't just got to do it, you get to do it,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

sometimes important nuances get lost. So yes, it's true that not getting enough sleep in the long term is associated with health problems like cardiovascular disease,

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

And so consciousness is very unlikely to be a matter of computation alone. And if this is true, then conscious AI is off the table, at least for AI as we know it today.

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

and that even the Pope got involved? So, this is totally true. Back in the 1950s, scientists knew that when women enter menopause,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and maybe touching that toad will give you warts, even though I don't actually think that's true. You should feel free to touch as many toads as you want.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

in learning about gross things. This is certainly true of kids; the number of middle school teachers who show my videos

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

is a testament to that. But I think it's totally true of adults, too. You know, I think we all love hearing about gross stories,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

between what is, you know, made through AI and what is actually true for the people who are involved in decision-making in our daily lives.

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

to differentiate between what was actually made artificially and what the true story of the people that are going to represent you is. (Applause)

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

(Laughter) He would have never left for Thebes and made the prophecy come true. We turn to prophets because we're anxious about uncertainty,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

(Applause) So we've created something called True Net Worth, and we're going to debut it right here.

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

(Cheers and applause) True Net Worth is your regular net worth, combined with the money you've donated

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

Here are the top five in the world. Here are the top five by true net worth. (Applause)

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

(Applause) That's true net worth. Now let's look at the biggest movers on this list.

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

She's the 84th richest person in the world by net worth. She's 26th by true net worth. (Cheers and applause)

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

People don't value what you can't measure. True net worth offers role models for billionaires, for millionaires, for thousandaires.

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

Another one I've been hearing recently is, "Well, won't AI fix this for me?" I wish that were true. And for a while, I thought it was.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

The famed therapist M. Scott Peck said that true listening requires a setting aside of oneself. And sometimes that means setting aside your personal opinion.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

was a prerequisite for having things in common, but it's just not true. Maybe you're both cat people,

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

nor anything else is at risk. And that may be true. But when we stay on this side of the gap,

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

or make a new sneaker. We need more than that, we need true investment. We need investment in our girls to let them know that they matter,

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

And it occurred to me that if it was true that I didn't just have those feelings onstage -- I had them all the time, my whole life --

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

I had them all the time, my whole life -- and if that was true, wow, that was a lot of feelings. So I didn't even want to believe this was true.

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

and if that was true, wow, that was a lot of feelings. So I didn't even want to believe this was true. But once Emily brought me a huge stack of peer-reviewed science,

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

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems as having both things be true. Because it was when that happened

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

and the idea that feelings were tunnels, I was just like, "I don't think that's true. I'm pretty sure that uncomfortable feelings are caves with bats and rats

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

had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. But that was only true for the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

But -- and I hope you are expecting a "but" by now -- but that wasn't true for everyone. People who spent time caring for others

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

of 100 of her friends. We know that is true, because the women blowing up social media right now

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

create a biological force field against disease and decline. And it's not just true of humans but their primate relations, our primate relations as well.

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

has been killing off our artists for the last 500 years. And, if this is true, and I think it is true,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And, if this is true, and I think it is true, the question becomes, what now?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

the lower your chance of heart disease, and that stayed true for rich and for poor. That study illustrates what my friends in public health

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

that you can customize to care for yourself. Because if it's true that regardless of what you struggle with,

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

>> Hard, hard, hard. >> How do we know our true potential? I think that we don't know until we try.

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

that AI is nothing like the brain. And that is true. But could it also be the AI and the brain share something in common?

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

the predicted neural network scratchpad for a particular word is more similar to the true neural network scratchpad for that word than it is to the neural network scratch pad

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

(Laughter) But one thing will remain true. We are meaning-making humans,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

since it's proven to drive engagement on the app. The same is true of memes, or words in general, since trending metadata, like hashtags,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

it is a kind of echo chamber that affirms your cottagecore personality. The same is true of any niche community created on social media. And on one hand, this is great for linguistics,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

to on-demand streaming. A true paradigm shift that will make experiences more engaging than ever.

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

(Laughter) That's not true. I made that up.

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

I would not go so far to give AI a true human sense of humor. A human sense of humor is not about making a joke or getting it.

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

It's the blessing we get for the curse of mortality. Mark Twain said the true source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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

to the same information that my hearing colleagues do. Unfortunately, this is not true for many Deaf throughout the world. Interpreters are very expensive and scarce.

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

David Fajgenbaum: That's right. LN: It's, like, too good to be true. DF: Well, it is, except for the fact that it's just not profitable to do this.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

And these systems are spending 15 minutes writing these deep papers. That's true for most of them. Do you have any idea how much computation

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

And you have an output that’s English, and you have memory, which is true of all humans. Now we're all busy working,

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

BS: Let me push on this a little bit. So if this is true and we can end up in this sort of standoff scenario

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

that you are a human being, and it could actually be true without anything else, and also not be able to link it to others

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

As this stuff happens quicker, you will forget what was true two years ago or three years ago. That's the key thing.

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

expectation to work all the time everywhere this is especially true since the rise of remote working

Work

that individual payments to each creator behind the data would be small. But this is true of many content-licensing markets. Creators still want to get paid, even if the payments are small.

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

Now, obviously, that's not how they understood what they were doing. But it would have been true just the same. So picture that, really picture it.

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

as one American essay has put it Leisure is how we construct the true fabric of self Leisure can also guard against

Leisure

it is not a means to an end true Leisure is an end in itself something you do for the sheer Joy of it

Leisure

It may be initially just a word running in your head without a true feeling of gratitude in your heart. A word is a sound,

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

This magical mantra, "thank you," and the true feeling of gratitude in your heart can help you deal with any life situation peacefully, joyfully and blissfully.

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

We'll be so, "Oh, everything's wonderful, I'm so grateful." Well, it turns out, the opposite is true. The research shows

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

that the painful things that had happened to these kids were not their fault. For the first time, I was able to see that that was probably true for me too. By blaming themselves,

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

Everything you've heard, in other words, about the less than glamorous side of being a CEO, it's true. You lose your cover.

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

But stories are forever, and young people are storytellers. They are true tellers. Even a few months ago,

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

I believe that happens when you have a work environment where people feel seen. Where they’re in true community with one another. Where they can pursue bold ideas without fear.

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

and you feel comfortable, tell them something true about yourself, something really personal.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

What am I going to be able to do? It is true that the expectation of what we’ll have for someone in a particular job increases,

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

you admit to having a lot to lose, and it's true that these questions do provide a mechanism for getting to know someone quickly,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

And I cringe a little when I read that now, not because it isn't true, but because at the time, I really hadn't considered

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

And what I want, what perhaps I will spend my life wanting, is for that myth to be true. I want the happy ending implied by the title to my article,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

that doesn't reduce well to one dimension here. You know, probably some of the good things are true and probably some of the criticism is true.

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

You know, probably some of the good things are true and probably some of the criticism is true. In terms of OpenAI,

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

And by far the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me, like everything everybody says is true. A thing my cofounder Ilya said once is, I don’t know.

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

what he wants is what you're going to have to respond to and that's true domestically especially as he looks to

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

existential danger the latter is not true I'm very glad to hear you say that okay let's talk about economics of

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

immediately put out a social media post saying absolutely not true um I'm tariff man I'm gonna do this so that's going to

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

Imagine a Japanese-French couple, and they speak English together. Are they unable to communicate the true strength of their feelings because of this language distance?

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

From a receiving side, a partner might feel unsure if they grasp the true meaning of a joke or just a superficial facet thereof.

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

and I was so disheartened that my husband would never know the true comedic genius his wife actually is. (Laughter)

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

Mhm. That's also true in rice. They go

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

love your leftovers. They are the only true free lunch, and when you get sick of them, you can move

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

They feel they don't have a choice. CA: So it's unquestionably true that there was a big swing in Silicon Valley.

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