Quotes About Feedback

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I can't control that, nor if they like the work, so best not to even try.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

We get prompt feedback on social network. The overseas audience is quick to convey what they feel about a film and we realise whether we are up to date.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

Gosh, the fans always have something to say. They're never happy with anything.

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'

My father and my grandfather always watch my films and share their feedback with me. It helps me a lot in my own career.

I can play well on grass. Everyone keeps on telling me that.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.

I think from a driving perspective, the great thing of being in a simulator a lot is that you can constantly work on areas. Of course it's not like being in a real car, and you always have to remember that, but it means there are all these things that you can work on.

Open mics are a great way to rework your material to see what punchlines land best.

Whatever you do in this business, there's going to be someone that critiques you, so you just deal with the criticism and keep grinding because that person isn't putting the work in that you're putting in.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

When you grow up a Matthews, other Matthews are always telling you what you're doing wrong.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

You've got to listen to your guests.

Feedback is a gift only when it comes from a person who has earned your trust.

how you can be a better spouse, and regardless of the other's attitude, act on what he or she tells you. Continue to both seek more input and comply with those wishes with all your heart and will. Assure your spouse that your motives are pure. 2. When you receive positive feedback, you know there is progress. Each month make one nonthreatening but specific request that is easy for your spouse.

Follow this pattern of asking for feedback once a month for the entire six months. Whenever Glenn gives you the first positive response, you will know that your efforts are getting through to him emotionally. One week after you receive the first positive feedback, I want you to make a request of Glenn—something that you would like him to do, something in keeping with your primary love language.