Quotes About Feedback

I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It's all part of being human.

I get too upset by online criticism.

With some actors, if I have upward of 10 notes, I don't want to give them all 10 notes and overwhelm them. I usually parse them out three or four at a time.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.