Betsy DeVos

When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.

American Public Servant

Robert Rankin

I always had a problem when I did the audio books myself because they weren't made to have me doing all the voices. And to hear established actors, and you think, 'Wow, that sounds like it's supposed to sound,' is great. They've got the right inflections, which is an enormous skill.

British Novelist

Gene Weingarten

When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer.

American Journalist

Shervin Pishevar

Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.

Iranian Businessman

Noel Gallagher

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

English Musician

Jonathan Krohn

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

American Author

Steve Vai

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

American Musician

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Austrian Actor

Willie Nelson

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

Oscar Isaac

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

Guatemalan Actor

Understanding inflections helps you express actions in past, present, or future.

Word Variety

Some inflections follow regular patterns, making them easier to learn.

Spelling Patterns

Watch out for irregular inflections that don't follow normal rules.

Odd Exceptions

Voice inflection can reveal feelings or attitudes not shown by words alone.

Emotional Hint

Rising inflection at the end of sentences often indicates a question.

Question Clue

Inflection patterns can vary across different English-speaking cultures.

Culture Sensitive

Imagine a curve in a graph changing direction at the inflection point.

Visualize Math

Inflection point can indicate a significant change in business or economy.

Economic Change

In data analytics, an inflection point may reveal a trend's new phase.

Analytics Insight

 describe what happens when you go through a black hole center of a black hole the singularity the laws of physics as we know them kind of collapse or implode they no longer apply a great metaphor that we borrow to use to describe what can happen with technology we're going to hit this inflection point the singularity where it's going to be

What is Technological...

 and was able to infer its own rules and then beat the world's residing Go champion. That is exciting, because it relieves the software engineer of the need of being super smart, and pushes the burden towards the data. As I said, the inflection point where this has become really possible --

What AI is -- and isn't...

 mimics the visual inflection, sudden inflection of that jagged shape. Now, this is very important, because what it's telling you is your brain is engaging in a primitive -- it's just -- it looks like a silly illusion, but these photons in your eye are doing this shape,

3 clues to understanding...

 This is the start of a systemic change in the way we travel. Simply put, society has moved forward, as we've moved faster. The railroad ushered in the industrial revolution, the airplane forever changed the way we move. But today, we’re at an inflection point.

Josh Giegel: Super...

 And he replied with two pages of text. This is very unlike him. He is a terse dude. And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics,

Why you should define...

 I've learned about the poetry and the wisdom and the grace that can be found in the words of people all around us when we simply take the time to listen you might have noticed that I don't have much inflection in my voice that's why

The Year in Ideas: TED...

 might say that it's more reverberant there's more sonority it's a more full sound there's tone there's pulse there's inflection it's as if the composer wanted the notes to be in the air for a specific amount of time I'm going to

A lesson in classical...

 There are several types of aphasia grouped into two fluent, or receptive, aphasia and non-fluent, or expressive, aphasia. People with fluent aphasia may have normal vocal inflection but use words that lack meaning.

Aphasia: The disorder...

 And data is not evidence -- it may not be supportive if it's consistent with rival theories. So, what do you do? When you're at the inflection points of life, deciding on a strategy for your business,

What to trust in a...

 interestingly I learned that within each one of those calls there are inflections that have very