Quotes About Feedback

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I can't think of any other field in which people who aren't experts critique other people who aren't experts in the hope of everyone becoming an expert.

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.

I made my debut in 2006 and absolutely, there was the pressure of the cricket, but there was no social media. There was no direct feedback to your phone. If you wanted to, you could avoid it.

People who take time out to dole out opinion on social media are negative people.

I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.

We always say we are a brand for our fans because through social media we're so lucky to see what people are asking us for, what they're looking for, and so we really design what we like but also take our fans in mind.

With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone.

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

When you're writing a blog post, you can take solace in knowing that you will immediately know how people will respond to it, and if the criticism is bad, then that's fine because you can work on that and fix it, and if it's good, then that's great because you know what to do in the future. It gets pushed down so quickly.

I've sold 46 million pillows and my customers' opinions are the only ones that matter to me.

The funny thing about this business is the only time I get praised is for being critical, but I don't want that to be my sole reputation as an announcer.

I'm definitely not making movies solely for myself. That's something that I hear people say in the past, all they care about is that they like what they're making. They don't care what other people think. I think that's a disservice to the project and to the people that are working on it.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

I have to give all the solutions and feedback to my players if we want to improve.

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.