sounds so soft so fluffy so benign sounds like a Joanie Mitchell song I've looked at clouds from this ain't no Cloud folks uh I rename it in the book The Supernova cuz
And not long after that, her husband Pat had a tumor that they were initially told was benign. He had surgery to remove as much of it as could be done. And then when the tumor recurred the surgeons at that time wondered why he wasn't treated
day Americans like myself. Marc Benioff at Salesforce does a great job of it.
they're some of the most motivated people I've ever met. Marc Benioff is totally walking the walk when he talks about being a good corporate citizen.
And I consider it the foundation of my success. Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce. Mark Bertolini, the CEO of Aetna.
And last year, 2013 was the year when CEO after CEO came out as being meditators. Marc Benioff of Salesforce told us that he's been meditating for 25 years. Ray Dalio, the CEO of one of the biggest hedge funds, Bridgewater, said he's been meditating for 35 years and described it as the foundation of his success.
And this was the first that we really understood that our softwear business, which was supposed to be so much more environmentally benign than our hard iron business, that cotton was actually a culprit, that the chemicals that went into growing cotton at the time-- about 8% of the pesticides in the world went into growing cotton, so really a pesticide-intensive crop.
These are two large audience games in movie theaters that we built recently. One is for Sprint and the one in the upper left is for Benihana Restaurants. The Benihana game -- the audience could put their hands up and essentially help a chef catch shrimp in his hat. So moving left and right, the hat would move left and right with the audience and basically a large audience game. People are jumping out of their seats and screaming and yelling and trying to take control of the chef's hat.
you believe that all life--anybody's life is valuable, and equally valuable, she doesn't have a chance. The reasons she doesn't have a chance it's because, I think I was in Togo and Benin now, I think she's probably seven years old, so hard to tell how old the kids are because they're so tiny. They don't get a chance to grow to their full potential but her life is going to be hauling water. That stone on her head, her job and her family is to haul water. Flip to the next picture--oh, go back, I'm sorry, I thought I had another
Also... there's a phrase "beni o sasu," meaning applying red lipstick or eyeshadow. And, of course, I'm a Kabuki actor and not a Kabuki professor.
And so you can have a bad strategy, bad culture. You can have a benign culture that doesn't do anything, or you can have a highly aligned culture. Now, I'll walk through some examples of this.
of his health conditions. So Jason Aard said that before he did his exam for his PhD, he had had a benign brain tumor uh an operation for that just a couple of weeks before and a stroke. People were questioning why had this not come out at the time. So bit by bit aspects of his
in international music today. Born in Benin to a Beninese father and a Nigerian mother, Angelique's music cross-pollinates the West African traditions of her childhood and influences with influences from America, Europe, and Latin America.
There are a lot of them. You're both Beninese and Nigerian, which is awesome, because I'm also a Nigerian.
But 1/4 women are young and thin, so it seems like they should have ruled that out before treating me for the more benign possibility, which was a perimenopausal condition that I didn't have. And I think that, you know, I started to put the puzzle pieces together as I wrote the book and then went on my book tour and met, you know,
So bad, really bad. A more benign impetus to return to the essay came from Henry. As far as I know, Henry couldn't care less about birds, but he seemed to see something in my argument that our preoccupation with future catastrophes
Some of them are benign.
It's inspired by Benin caryatid shrine structures in West Africa.
"Sometimes these growths were benign, and surely, that would be the case with me.
It's benign fasciculation, which is just a big word for twitching.
But surveillance isn't benign.
or by benign neglect.
Or something as benign as that.
So that's fairly benign, you would think.
But is it benign-- once again, I want to point out the dispositional nature of humor, which means your attitudes and your opinions will determine
So that seems fairly benign, but let's look at the response.
its avenue is benign humor.
When I say benign violation, the right amount of wrong, well, the right amount.
It could be called benign neglect, right?
It could be benign.
It's this benign lesion that doesn't need any further treatment or follow up.
Sort of crusty but benign.
which is considerably more benign than what I imagined.
actually being a benign and positive experience for us and why I felt compelled I'm going to wrap this up why
Now dark despair around benights me.
A more benign version of what you suggested is the shoe box version, and that is to not throw stuff away, but to actually put it in the shoe box and up in the attic, or some
That's a benign version and that might help address some of the time challenge.
something that should be benign. Your father should be benign. He should be good. And and yet, it's turning sort of
whether a particular cell is malignant or benign.
out for reasons that might be benign or
And it provides a relatively benign explanation that's better than the alternatives.
4,000 Salesforce employees petitioned Marc Benioff and said we shouldn't be selling our software to the NRA.
And I don't really mind how benign your manager is or how loving or caring they are, particularly
He's kind of a benign face, a little bit drunken.
a general AI to be benign.
But then you've got Marc Benioff at Salesforce, who's the CEO there, who's doing some really radical things around pay gap stuff.
And some of them seem awfully benign or silly even to mention.
All I knew about Asia with like Benihana restaurant, don't like it, and that Michael Creighton book, "Rising Sun"
Because I have a metaphor with Benihana.
Who here has been to Benihana?