Quotes About Feedback

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY.

JUST CALLING IT "FEEDBACK" DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT HAS ACTUALLY FED BACK To speak precisely: IT HASN'T FED BACK UNTIL THE SYSTEM CHANGES COURSE Up to that point, it's merely Sensory Input.

As I understood it, what really mattered was simply that some systems ('system' is just a jargon word for anything, like a swinging pendulum, or the Solar System, or water dripping from a tap) are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there is feedback, so that what a system does affects its own behaviour.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

By the last American packet I had two letters, one from a poet of Massachusetts, and another from a poetess: the he, Mr. Lowell, and the she, Mrs. Sigourney. She says that the sound of my poetry is stirring the 'deep green forests of the New World;' which sounds pleasantly, does it not?

Shout when you're ready for some devastating criticism," said John Adair.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.

Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

It is not for me but for the people to rate the central government.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

I like that raw energy that I get from an audience.