The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Chip Heath
Some Similar Quotes
  1. It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, - Amit Ray

  2. It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias. - Criss Jami

  3. I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. - Toba Beta

  4. To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’... - David Foster Wallace

  5. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver

More Quotes By Chip Heath
  1. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

  2. Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

  3. Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23, 000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. He reports the poll's findings: * Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to...

  4. To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

  5. The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Related Topics