Quotes About Feedback

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'

I'll audition for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director wants you, the creative people want you, but the studio is saying no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a guarantee; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines.

The studio should not have released this film.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I think, sometimes with fans, what a lot of studios miss is it's just the gesture: it's the idea of knowing that they do matter, that we do care about what they think.

When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

The great thing about wrestling is that it's very subjective. They'll let you know what they like and don't like.

Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.

When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.

It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.