Quotes About Feedback

The particular combination of the explicit communication of high standards and the demonstrated assurance of the teacher's belief in the student's ability to succeed (as evidenced by the effort to provide detailed, constructive feedback) was a powerful intervention for Black students...it was an exceedingly effective way to generate the trust needed to motivate Black students to make their best effort.

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

A coach should never forget to compliment his players on a well-played victory, but shouldn't hesitate to tell them when they've played poorly—in a loss or a win.

Later, when Trump brought up the second speech to him, the staff secretary said, "I thought the second speech was the only good one of the three." "I don't want to talk to you," Trump responded. "Get away from me.

Bonifazia was an excellent servant, but much inclined to criticism and long explanations of why the instructions she had just been given were wrong or impossible to carry out.

I'll clear the room to get your honest opinion, if that's what it takes.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

I rarely ask for suggestions, because, when I do, people tend to make them.

I love reading interviews that we've done and seeing how we come across, and thinking, 'Mmm, maybe we shouldn't say that again.'

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

There is always room for improvement; so I always invite criticism from my audience.

Generally, I respect critics; they have their job to do.

If somebody said about me, 'I don't think his jokes are good, I don't think he's a good comedian,' I don't like to read that but that's a fair thing to say.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.

I believed that the worst thing you can do for a poorly delivered service is to get more physicians or patients to try it and find out how bad it is.

In the past, the accepted maxim was that every unhappy customer told ten friends. Now an unhappy customer can tell ten thousand "friends" through the Internet.

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop.