Quotes About Feedback

If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.

question this in the Blue Church is to out yourself as a heretic. Deviance from the myth, especially backed with science from credible sources, is prohibited. Even though Google asked for his feedback, they didn't really want it. His paper challenged the world view of those in charge and therefore it deserved only shame, ridicule, and a purge.

Despite never once being cited by HR for discriminatory practices, or being known as a sexist, Google fired James for sharing his paper. Not only was James fired but he was publicly shamed for reporting on existing research, research which to any reasonable observer, is non-controversial. James made the ultimate mistake. He failed to understand the request for feedback was an empty one, that critical consideration of all sides of an argument was undesirable, even anathema to the cause.

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

survey (n) a series of questions that investigates the opinions or experiences of a group of people

Lo que veo es que cada vez hablás peor, repetiste mil veces las mismas palabras.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

An adaptive agent is constantly playing a game with its environment. What exactly does that mean? Distilled to the essence, what actually has to happen for game-playing agents to survive and prosper? Two things, Holland decided: prediction and feedback.

Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose.

We depend upon cognitive assent and affective assurances to substantiate the reality of our relationship with God. If we can't "know" or "feel" God, we customarily doubt our relationship with God. But such "knowing" and "feeling" restrict God to the narrow limits of our minds and senses and reduce our relationship with God to the maintenance of such feedback.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

when you are shooting a television show, time is more important than any one performance. If you are doing a bad job at acting, I had learned, they will not bother to tell you. That would be a waste of time, and it might put you into an emotional hole that would also waste time. And by the same token, I had learned that when they say you have done a good job at acting, they are probably lying.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

I just love it when certain people feel free to tell writers what the correct words are. When I hear the same people use impact as a verb, I want to throw up!

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

There are no failures - only feedback.