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And whatever the short-run price for taking action on climate change or on security, or taking action to provide opportunities for people for education, these are prices that are worth paying so that you build a stronger global society where people feel able to feel comfortable with each other and are able to communicate with each other in such a way that you can actually build stronger links between different countries.

Agent metaphors describe price movements as the deliberate action of a living thing, as in, "The NASDAQ climbed higher."

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

These neurons will fire when a person performs a specific action.

But what Rizzolatti found was a subset of these neurons, maybe about 20 percent of them, will also fire when I'm looking at somebody else performing the same action.

It's almost as though it's performing a virtual reality simulation of the other person's action.

And that is, there are mirror neurons, just as there are mirror neurons for action, there are mirror neurons for touch.

I will show how the capillary action works, how it feeds, I'll be able to get all the cells inside that stem.

During the die-off of the gharial we did galvanize a lot of action.

And then let's think how compassion informs wisdom, and that vulnerability is our greatest strength, and that emotions have inherent logic, which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action.

Now, even if I persuaded you to do something, it's hard sometimes to actually get action as a result.

Now, this is an example of that battle, and makes us realize intentions don't always translate into action, and so one of the fundamental challenges is how we would actually do that.

They began to think of an escape route from this prisoner's dilemma, and we developed concepts of collective action, basically trying to bring various competitors together around the table, explaining to all of them how much it would be in their interests if they simultaneously would stop bribing, and to make a long story short, we managed to eventually get Germany to sign together with the other OECD countries and a few other exporters.

But I'm very civil in my action, I assure you.

I'd like to share with you that action.

You've taken action for a particular outcome and the outcome you got was the exact opposite of what you wanted?

And this is how he's going to turn thought back into action.

If we don't take action, we just leave ourselves open to have someone else jerk the strings that tie us to slavery in the products we buy, and in our government policies.

You're going to see the action is three against three, completely autonomous.

So we created a way to find out, (Laughter) and I got my first look at that famous beak in action.

And when you dive into that rift valley, that's where the action is because literally thousands of active volcanoes are going off at any point in time all along this 40,000 mile range.

You actually put action to the issues you care about.

Dead Serbian soldiers were collected after a battle and used as barter for the return of prisoners or Bosnian soldiers killed in action.

Perhaps because a lesson had been learned by the weak response to the war in Bosnia and the failure in Rwanda, when Serbia attacked Kosovo, international action was taken much more decisively.

Now it's really just up to all of us to take action.

They are the basis of every action that you take.

So I call this emotional intelligence in action.

So the studies have been done with satellites and other things, and what you're seeing here is a graph of, over the last 33 years or so, there's 14 percent more leaf action going on.

It's going from intention to action.

It can prompt action.

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