Quotes About Feedback

I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.

I have learnt to deal with the box office result. Whatever happened to any film, thankfully, people always appreciated my performance.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

If someone praises me for my acting, all I say is thanks and in case of criticism, I do apologize.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

Agreeing to behave according to our accountability model makes it easier to coach one another, exchange feedback, and conduct the conversations that are needed to work through difficult challenges and ensure progress.

If you want to build a project that is perfect, you'll never succeed. You must allow failure, and people need to know it, so tell them.

It's one thing to get feedback, it's quite another to act on it. When it comes to feedback, the real prize is won when you use it to get better results, strengthen relationships, and achieve better outcomes all around.

The right data delivered at the right time represents a valuable source of feedback, the kind that doesn't lie!

the accountable person looks for every opportunity to self-report. They are eager to review progress; they aren't afraid of it. Before

Getting a team to act on the feedback they receive from one another creates real traction and ensures true progress toward results.

Every human being gets much of his sense of his own reality out of what others say to him and think about him.

Even though your film is in the can, the real work begins after...

People fight over technology in ways they never would face-to-face because they can say their version of events without getting immediate feedback that might challenge it. It allows people to throw more intense self-righteous temper tantrums.