Listening in sentence

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Imagine two people are listening to music.

What are the odds that they are listening to the exact same playlist?

And so in order to bring change that I desperately wanted and I desperately felt in my heart, I had to start listening to that inner spirit.

I had to start listening to that man on the inside that went against everything that I had been trained to do.

Repetition gives rise to a kind of orientation to sound that we think of as distinctively musical, where we're listening along with the sound, engaging imaginatively with the note about to happen.

This mode of listening ties in with our susceptibility to musical ear worms, where segments of music burrow into our head, and play again and again, as if stuck on repeat.

But although this would yield countless original melodies never heard before, only a tiny fraction of them would be worth listening to.

Picture your success when you're beginning a difficult task, something as simple as listening to music with deep bass; it can promote feelings of power.

Or maybe you've been in an argument when the other person suddenly accuses you of not listening to what they're saying at all?

We're less likely to compromise, which means we're not listening to each other.

Again, that means we're not listening to each other.

A conversation requires a balance between talking and listening, and somewhere along the way, we lost that balance.

That means the host probably stopped listening two minutes ago because he thought of this really clever question, and he was just bound and determined to say that.

And we stop listening.

I cannot tell you how many really important people have said that listening is perhaps the most, the number one most important skill that you could develop.

But by listening to changes in the amplitude and frequency of those waves, we can hear the story that those waves are telling.

For example, listening to gravity, just in this way, can tell us a lot about the collision of two black holes, something my colleague Scott has spent an awful lot of time thinking about.

I mean, what could be more glorious than listening to the Big Bang itself?

But it just so happened, two days later, I had to travel up the road to Harlem, where I found myself sitting in an urban farm that had once been a vacant lot, listening to a man named Tony tell me of the kids that showed up there every day.

I thank you for listening to our story, a story of how we are keeping our promise to remain carbon neutral, a story of how we are keeping our country pristine, for ourselves, our children, for your children and for the world.

Do you ever feel like you're always listening to people who agree with you?

What are all the possible ways that we can think of to get everybody in the middle of a musical experience, not just listening, but making music?

What we're seeing now is that computers and radios are becoming so sophisticated that we're developing algorithms to let people own machines, like Wi-Fi devices, and overlay them with a sharing protocol that would allow a community like this to build its own wireless broadband network simply from the simple principle: When I'm listening, when I'm not using, I can help you transfer your messages; and when you're not using, you'll help me transfer yours.

But there is one thing that all great TED Talks have in common, and I would like to share that thing with you, because over the past 12 years, I've had a ringside seat, listening to many hundreds of amazing TED speakers, like these.

And incredibly, this exact pattern is being recreated in real time inside the minds of everyone listening.

That's right; in just a few minutes, a pattern involving millions of neurons is being teleported into 1,200 minds, just by people listening to a voice and watching a face.

We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.

So as I'm playing with my kids and I'm watching them play, listening to them talk, I thought, 'What if the money were real on the table?

It's listening to the 911 feed of the New Orleans Police Department, so that anytime there's a shooting reported in New Orleans, (Gunshot sound) the gun fires.

In my lab in Princeton, we bring people to the fMRI scanner and we scan their brains while they are either telling or listening to real-life stories.

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