Quotes About Feedback

Be open to constructive criticism. And use it as motivation to improve your performance.

Learn to handle criticism. Let it develop you instead of discourage you.

Constructive criticism is generally good for self improvement and indirectly helps you to become a more fruitful and stable person.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason.

Reacting students also indicated that they would be less likely to take future Reacting-type courses. The explanation, the researchers learned, was that Reacting students had worked much harder than their peers in regular seminars.

Anyone answer your ad?

The customer is sometimes wrong. —HERB KELLEHER, FORMER CHAIRMAN AND CEO, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

Fail #2: Criticizing

When you ask people questions, respect their answers. If they offer a good idea, act on it (and let them know that you did). Even if they're off base, acknowledge their remarks with a comment like, "That's worth thinking about" or "I hadn't looked at it that way." If the situation warrants, acknowledge a comment by saying "Smart idea" or "I'm glad you're on our team—I need people with creative ideas like that.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. —BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.

Emotions are like a boomerang.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

You know, it's funny, no matter what I do - I mean, you're always going to have negatives and positives.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.