Quotes About Feedback

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Never fear criticism. Use the information to grow your thinking power.

This review also pointed to six common components of effective brief treatment (cf. Miller & Sanchez, 1994), summarized by the acronym FRAMES: Feedback of personal status relative to norms Responsibility for personal change Advice to change Menu of options from which to choose in pursuing change Empathic counselor style Support for self-efficacy What began as an interest in motivation for treatment had broadened now to focusing on motivation for change.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'.

The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

Suffering is to cyclists what poll data are to politicians; they rely on it to tell them how well they are doing their job.

Trying to change other people's thinking appears to be one of the hardest tasks in the world. While the easy answer may seem to be to give people feedback, real change happens when people see things they have not seen before. The best way to help someone see something new is to help quiet her mind so that she can have a moment of insight. As you have insights, you change your brain, and by changing your brain you change your whole world.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

It was a shriek, like microphone feedback. But more organic and pained, like the sound a whale would make if it were on fire.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

We ignored the fact that many customers don't know what they want. We ignored that fact that even when they know what they want, they can't describe it. We ignored the fact that even when they can describe it, they often describe a proposed solution rather than the real need.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

When you get more middle fingers than thumbs up, it's a progress.

The absence of 'criticism' is not Appreciation!!!

Everyone is looking for approval and appreciation even when they ask for criticism.

A complaint is a compliment of negativity.

Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.

Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.