Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
Barbara Corcoran
Related It's humbling to see this segment call out the importance of how dealers treat them since so many fi... LONNIE MILLER Get your seat belt (off) first. Get your windows down as quickly as possible. If you can't get out i... BRIAN MILLS You ride (eight seconds) or die in this sport, JOSEPH ALLEN People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little p... LILITH SAINTCROW There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they... DAN PINK I'm excited as all get-out for these girls. I'm not sure it's sunk in yet, but I had goose bumps in ... GREG STAKE At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of ... ARJUN RAMPAL Buyers want to see a condo that is neat, clean and updated. When they walk in, it should be in move-... ELLEN ALLEN If the newest, $85,000 Corvette came within two seconds of that, it would be a victory for a car. ALEX HYATT Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from... DAN PEARCE In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at th... JACK CANFIELD We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise... ELIZABETH ESTY It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, mayb... STEVEN WRIGHT Students tend to leave their valuables in similar spots in their rooms, so it's not too hard to figu... GRANT WILLIAMS (Johnson) had a couple of streaks where he would put up eight points in a matter of 45 seconds. He h... BRIAN VOYLES First-time home buyers are the ones who are most interested in the 100 percent financing because the... ELLEN BITTON When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see. KYLE CHANDLER You never get a second chance to make a great first impression. Within a few seconds, with just a gl... OLIVIA FOX CABANE Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, wher... MIKE NICHOLS Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what ... KURT BUSCH If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h... MUHAMMAD ALI Why they don’t wanna walk in my shoes, I ask them to come out of their shoes and walk the world in... SHREYA GUPTA The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get ... GENE ROBINSON In those seconds, I was mourning everything I'd lost. How I'd never get to see you walk down an aisl... KIERA CASS The first eight minutes they couldn't miss. DAVE CHANLEY In the first half, we had seven or eight shots go in and out. CHRIS DUHON What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and wha... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. ALLEN KLEIN I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never tou... ALEC BALDWIN If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybo... ANDREW SHUE We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theate... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON Based on preliminary data for the first two months we expect to see a similar trend as in the first ... CAROLINA MILANESI It is pandemonium backstage. I straighten ties, see if their shoes are laced - and I always have to ... JOSEPH ABBOUD They have to walk their kids to school. They have to walk their kids home. They are afraid to be out... DIANA SALINAS The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and t... NICOLA FORMICHETTI We played the last eight minutes of the game and the first eight minutes of the game, we just did no... SHARON ALLEN A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the m... BARBARA CORCORAN If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see... CHARLES NELSON REILLY It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you.... TEA LEONI There are 28 species of dolphins and whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. We see, typically, common ... MICHAEL COHEN It turns out that there are a lot of people here in town who have moved out here from Arlington, Jam... DIDI CHADRAN I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hour... T. BOONE PICKENS There seems to be a sense of urgency, especially among first-time buyers. We're seeing people in the... ANTHONY HSIEH Within seconds of powering [the servers] up, they were processing an image, CLIFF PLUMER You have to stay on eight seconds, but sometimes it seems like eight minutes. A perfect ride would b... SCOTT ASHLEY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING We can determine the magnitude within a couple of seconds of initiation of rupture and predict the g... RICHARD ALLEN Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL We've worked hard with our look teams about when they break the huddle, getting the ball snapped wit... BILL COWHER You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's ... RAY BRADBURY This was a really big win because it answered questions in terms of are we for real. I could see the... KATIE MEIER There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The buyers like the rate, they like the credit union, they like the simplified process in buying a c... DAVID JACOBSON They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more co... PETER FALK Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab peop... 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KATIE COURIC One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on the... HOZIER I saw everybody in front of me, and their eyes were going crazy. It was a scary five or six seconds.... MARTIN BRODEUR When you get physically intimidated in that way, mentally you kind of, like, crack. That's what I fe... PHIL MARTELLI I always tell my students that an audience will decide whether or not to listen in the first 10 seco... EMILY CAMPBELL We've tried re-introducing them to the wild seven or eight times, but every time they die within a c... CYNTHIA CAREY Buyers now don't have to put money down on the first house they see. They can be more selective. GLENN CRELLIN As a coach you try to put yourself in their shoes and see what you're doing and how they may counter... LAWRENCE FRANK They got eight offensive rebounds on us in the first half. We talked about it at halftime and did a ... ANDY CERRONI The alarm system immediately goes to the police station. The chief has instructed police that if the... DAVE ZAGORAC I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout ... CHELSEA CAIN They have already tried eight times before in Geneva, and they failed eight times. If they try this ... YU SHUNING It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what y... CHRISTOPHER MELONI When you're breaking 50 [seconds] in the 300 hurdles, you're doing well. When you break 50 in your f... KRISTI FRYE We've been running it on remote sites in Canada and Norway. It reduces eight-second delays over sate... DAVID MORAN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. It was a great team effort. We didn't allow East Union a first down until about four minutes to go i... 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BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. BARBARA MANDRELL