Quotes About Feedback

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was this mot: "Not bad, but PUFFY. You need to revise for length. Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%. Good luck.

This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

Can whoever left me a voicemail please send me a text telling me whether it's worth listening to?

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

vision led, customer informed.

I have always held in high regard individuals who informed me that certain behavior or policies were inappropriate. I respect candor. My door is always open for news—good or bad. Many leaders only want to hear the positive. It is dangerous to be employed by such people. Those who never want to hear bad news don't want to know when they are off course.

Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort thinking further.

The keys to flow: There's a clear challenge that fully engages your attention; you have the skills to meet the challenge; and you get immediate feedback about how you are doing at each step (the progress principle). You get flash after flash of positive feeling with each turn negotiated, each high note correctly sung, or each brushstroke that falls into the right place.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

In the old waterfall method, the business experts talk to the analysts, and analysts digest and abstract and pass the result along to the programmers, who code the software. This approach fails because it completely lacks feedback.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

The point is not to find the average customer but to find early adopters: the customers who feel the need for the product most acutely. Those customers tend to be more forgiving of mistakes and are especially eager to give feedback.

The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.

waiting too long to release can lead to the ultimate waste: making something that nobody wants.

Most of the time customers don't know what they want in advance.)

Only 5 percent of entrepreneurship is the big idea, the business model, the whiteboard strategizing, and the splitting up of the spoils. The other 95 percent is the gritty work that is measured by innovation accounting: product prioritization decisions, deciding which customers to target or listen to, and having the courage to subject a grand vision to constant testing and feedback.