Quotes About Feedback

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

I wouldn't say I give the hairdryer treatment but when we've not performed well you have to make people aware.

When you're the president, there's tremendous respect, and everybody goes out of their way respecting you and honoring you... it can be a trap. Nobody says 'Boo' to you, and nobody tells you you're wrong, hardly, if you have the wrong people around you.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

Giving it to the audience is probably the easiest thing. Finding out what they truly want is probably the most difficult.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

small batches of work, small teams, short cycles, and quick feedback—in effect, "small everything.

The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

Our worst critics prefer to stay.

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.