I like to listen to you when you speak.

Mimouna? No, never heard of that.

Tom doesn't want to hear about it.

And secondly, because what I'm going to say is true, and it will make a lot of people nervous because it's something we don't want to hear.

There is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking.

There is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking.

To have a conversation with it. To speak. To listen.

You will hear about it, and you will love it.

Talking is a necessity, listening is an art.

Yet, most of you have probably never heard about them.

Let's talk about something more interesting.

You'll hear more and more about it.

Now I was an engaged patient long before I ever heard of the term.

And my family and friends had gathered there to hear me speak.

I want to talk to you about something.

Let's talk about something more interesting.

I want to talk about something quite different, which is what I know about, and that is astronomy.

I need to speak to you about something.

We should talk about cancering as something we do, not something we have.

In fact, there are many ways for educators to use Web 2.0 technologies in their classrooms.

I know that it's incredibly boring to hear about other people's happinesses.

And I m thanking you, and I'm thanking my family because they had come to hear me speak.

But before I get to that, I want to address something that you may be wondering about.

So, so I've got something else that's not personal.

I want to talk to you about something kind of big.

But not too uncomfortable, because there's something unthreatening about seeing a political perspective, versus being told or forced to listen to one.

So, if you talk into the mike, you'll hear some music in your headphones if you talk in the phone, then video would happen.

Tom said something, but I couldn't hear what he said.

Now, I could talk about something that I'm known for, something that would be particularly appropriate for many of the more technically minded people here, or I could talk about something I really care about.

More generally, I want to tell you something about behavioral economics.

And when you talk to them they'll listen because they like listening it's about them.

We thought, what if we made these bacteria so they can't talk or they can't hear?

You need to stop talking all the time and start listening to what others say.

And now I want to talk about something entirely different.

And they start talking, and one of them says, Hey, has anybody tried to listen for this thing?

And he's also hearing our instructions when we tell him to do things.

In the summer of 1963, 250,000 people showed up on the mall in Washington to hear Dr. King speak.

Third, someone has something you've never even heard of before.

Whenever you hear anybody talking about the 80 20 rule, this is what's going on. Right?

These are compost toilets, and nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal.

If you can't hear somebody talking to you in a loud voice, it's too loud.

Yeah well we don't talk about that. Let's talk about something interesting.

It was never hard for us to find something to talk about.

Now, when you were little, if you had noise and you didn't want to hear it, you'd stick your fingers in your ears and hum.

Listening to a language being spoken is very different from reading or writing the same language.