Quotes About Feedback

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

Never ask people about your work.

I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.

Market type determines the startup's customer feedback and acquisition activities and spending. It changes customer needs, adoption rates, product features, and positioning as well as its launch strategies, channels and activities.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.