Quotes About Feedback

I think prepare, if you're going to voice your opinion be aware that some people will be supportive and some people won't.

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.

It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

Psychologists tell us that in order to learn from experience, two ingredients are necessary: frequent practice and immediate feedback.

The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

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

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free