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The ripples should be moving towards us.
And I'm going to share my music with you, but I hope that I'm going to do so in a way that tells a story, tells a story about how I used boredom as a catalyst for creativity and invention, and how boredom actually forced me to change the fundamental question that I was asking in my discipline, and how boredom also, in a sense, pushed me towards taking on roles beyond the sort of most traditional, narrow definition of a composer.
It gives me something to do, something to work towards.
So the goal here is to try and push, and see how far we can get towards the green curve.
He had to go towards the water as the sirens sounded.
So, taking the first steps towards this today, we're launching the Parkinson's Voice Initiative.
Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours.
We have no such aversion towards copying what other people have, because we do that nonstop.
And if you believe that my empathy is directed towards you, you are far more likely to trust me.
As you walk towards the ever-open threshold, you disappear, both to yourselves and to others.
As John Cage said, "We are not moving towards some kind of goal.
So that pool of water is sending out its heat upward towards the atmosphere.
When I came across all of this, it was towards the end of my PhD at Stanford.
As a first step towards that, my colleagues at Stanford and I have shown that you could actually maintain something more than 42 degrees Celsius below the air temperature with better engineering.
When we start by teaching young people that we live, not in a passive society, a read-only society, but in a writable society, where we have the power to change our communities, to change our institutions, that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway towards this open government innovation, towards this open government movement, towards this open government revolution.
Like many of you here, I am trying to contribute towards a renaissance in Africa.
Her understanding that a student-crafted honor code constitutes a reach towards perfection is incredible.
Countries rapidly shoot towards that 150 mark, and then they level off, and they don't really go on rising as you might expect.
Feel that familiar weight ... how naturally your finger slides towards the buttons.
The mobile phone has given people around the world an important tool towards gaining their political freedom.
It asked customers to purchase chocolate with the promise of good deeds towards loved ones.
I've run several dozen such surveys in different parts of the world, and in all cases except one, where a group actually underestimated the trade-to-GDP ratio, people have this tendency towards overestimation, and so I thought it important to give a name to this, and that's what I refer to as globaloney, the difference between the dark blue bars and the light gray bars.
I would like us to work towards that.
One of the reasons why we're moving away from banqueting halls such as the one in which we stand, banqueting halls with extraordinary images on the ceiling of kings enthroned, the entire drama played out here on this space, where the King of England had his head lopped off, why we've moved from spaces like this, thrones like that, towards the town hall, is we're moving more and more towards the energies of our people, and we need to tap that.
It turns out that over the past five years a number of researchers have done this, and by and large the results have all been the same, that when people are feeling disgust, their attitudes shift towards the right of the political spectrum, toward more moral conservatism as well.
Even worse, with our intention of trying to make buildings move towards a net-zero energy state, we can't do it just by making mechanical systems more and more efficient.
And what I really think that we're doing is, we're moving towards a collaborative society, a society in which the talents of both men and women are becoming understood and valued and employed.
The European Commission and other major donors are finding ways to divert money from institutions towards family support, empowering communities to look after their own children.
Aristotle called happiness "the chief good," the end towards which all other things aim.
Well, nationalism tells me that my nation is unique, and that I have special obligations towards my nation.
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