Quotes About Feedback

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Everything you do in life or experience in life gives inspiration for the creative process. But it also depends ultimately on what the consumer wants.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

With every task you think, 'What did I do wrong there? What could I do better?' That's why I've spent my life gravitating towards people who can show me how to improve.

Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.