Quotes About Feedback

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

I want to hear from my team in a way that they know they don't have to hold back. I've made it clear that there are no repercussions for brutal honesty. I let them know that we want to hear about anything they feel is not working for the company.

There's no replacement for a live crowd. The fans are our barometer - whether they love something or hate it, they will let you know.

Obviously, there's nothing like being in front of a live crowd. That's what makes a wrestling show - getting that instant feedback and taking them on an emotional journey through what you're doing in a ring. Nothing will ever replicate that.

I get lots of letters, and I reply to them all personally.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Obviously, if I cared about what people said about my reporting, I wouldn't be a good journalist.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.