Quotes About Feedback

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Well, it's a start, but basically it stinks!

If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There's definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it's tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.

Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell my wife when she's listening to my songs that the slightest hint of whether she likes it or not puts the pressure on me.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

I'm quite loud. When I was in film and TV, people were always saying, 'Oh Kelly, make it smaller, make it smaller.'

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.

I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.'

In the small amount of modeling work I've done, I'm always told that I never smile.

I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is not as flattering as I thought,' or 'I should smile bigger,' or 'That positioning is odd.' I learn from it.

When you can't make up your mind about which shoe to choose, you post a photo to SnapChat and ask the fans.

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'