Quotes About Feedback

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Dites-en du bien, dites-en du mal, mais dites-en quelque chose.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

later drafts of this novel and encouraging me

I'm sympathetic with new writers who focus so much on the beginning. That's what you show friends or beta readers to see if you are just wasting your time or if there's something there. But you won't really know until you finish the whole book.

the ultimate unit test is whether or not users want to use your application. All the other tests you write are totally irrelevant until you can get that one to pass.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use—now that's the hard stuff.

Online, word of mouth changes. In the old world, someone might tell five people, but in the new world, you can tell 5000. But be careful, because it works both ways. If you make a customer happy, he can tell 5000 people, too.

My approach to criticism and what I teach and preach inside Amazon -- is when you're criticized, first look in a mirror and decide, are your critics right? If they're right, change. Don't resist.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

feedback plays a minor or "modulatory" role in the brain.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.

If one is going to praise children's honesty when their words please, one must tolerate it when the words do not.

Critics are best motivators.

Building a better mousetrap isn't always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.