“Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.” PeopleWantGivingWritingReaderFeedback Author:Max Lucado
“If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingSingingFeedback Author:Max Lucado
“I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.” PeopleThinkingGivingLaughingSeriousNeededNegativeGive MeFeedbackForumsSerious ThingsNegative Feedback Author:Cakes da killa
“I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.” ThinkingWantedReviewsFeedbackEulogyPitchforks Author:Cakes da killa
“The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.” ShowsToo MuchChangedCriticalFeedbackTuna Author:Alex Timbers
“The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.” ShowsPresidentRolesRecordsBarackChicagoFeedbackOrganizer Author:Julianne Malveaux
“I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.” GivingBookDifferentCausesPicksCustomersShelvesFeedback Author:Jodi Picoult
“So we [with Chris Ellis] did [Fresh Hell], and we did the first five episodes as a lark, just to see if anybody would respond or be interested, and we got enough feedback that was positive that we thought, "Let's keep going with this and see if we can flesh it out a bit this season." We've had 10 episodes, and they've been longer and a little more complete.” IfsFirstsLittlesEnoughBitsHellFiveSeasonsFleshKeep GoingEpisodesFeedbackLarks Author:Brent Spiner
“I've gotten such good feedback from that [re-team with Wil Wheaton for Big Bang Theory appearance], and I hardly did anything.” BigsTeamTheoryAppearanceFeedbackBangs Author:Brent Spiner
“There's such a grand fraternity of actors who've played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and... I've gotten some feedback on it from people who've seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don't know.” PeopleKnowsLongActorsMarkEnjoyedOne TimeFeedbackFraternity Author:Brent Spiner
“If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact with it on your own terms. I mean, if you took it to the point where finally you get, say, tactile feedback, so you were wired in in terms of the whole nervous system. The sensorium. You would have the ultimate art form. I mean, any painter would want it, any filmmaker would want access to it you know, any musician would want access to it. It would eliminate the need for the divisions between what we describe as the arts, converting the whole thing to experience.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsMeanArtWholeRealityFormStuffTermMusicianUltimateAccessPainterNervousFilmmakerDivisionFeedbackNervous SystemConvertingTactile Author:Jerry Garcia
“I've had some parents ask me to do private birthday parties for their students, which I can't do, but it's an honor that they even ask. I love the feedback I get from parents on my music, it's so awesome.” I CanAsksParentPartyStudentsHonorAsk MeFeedbackBirthday Party Author:Raheem Jarbo
“I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.” PeopleGivingLuckyGive MeSurroundFeedback Author:Lena Dunham
“It's just one of those things like when you're not supposed to laugh, it makes it that much harder to stop laughing. And for some reason Zach [ Galifianakis] and I get in this feedback mood of giggling, and on the set of Hangover we just couldn't get through stuff.” ReasonStuffLaughingHarderMoodJust OneFeedbackHangover Author:Ed Helms
“I almost feel like I'm still in a molding stage so the feedback and response not only inspires me but guides me in a certain direction as well.” FeelsWellsStillsCertainStageInspireResponseGuidesFeedbackGuide MeMolding Author:Kid Ink
“I haven't talked to [Sterling Simm] personally about the situation. We did a couple retweets to make some noise and get a little feedback, but I would definitely consider it. When we had our session for the "All I Know" collaboration he played me a number of records, one being "All These", that were crazy.” KnowsLittlesNumbersSituationRecordsCrazyHavensCoupleNoiseCollaborationFeedbackSessionSterlingRetweet Author:Kid Ink
“A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.” GivingSaidOpinionQuietGainsRemainsInsightFeedbackAnalysts Author:Mary Tyler Moore
“I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.” WritingPlayUsedAudienceRecordsPatternsFeedback Author:Bruce Springsteen
“You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.” PeopleBelieveAmountWingsWestFeedbackBingeBinge Watching Author:Rob Lowe
“With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the initial feedback was: "No, Bryce is too nice." That's part of the reason why I really love auditions as well - you get to try out a character and try out different versions of a character.” TryingWellsDifferentReasonCharacterHelpingWantedNiceInvolvedProjectsFolksVersionsReason WhyAuditionsFeedbackInitialsToo Nice Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.” GivingFeelsHumansAbleAnimalVery GoodFeedback Author:Hugh Herr
“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.” Has BeensSelfDoneCasesWrittenSeeingToolsStonesSpeciesFeedbackInnateLoopsWritten Word Author:Jason Silva
“Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.” KnowsMightDangerousFeedbackDangerous ThingsMicrophones Author:Temple Grandin
“The customer is always what inspires me first! I love talking to everyone on Instagram and seeing feedback on SnapChat! I can ask a question like "What product do you wanna see next??" and they give you immediate answers. I will never make a product I personally wouldn't wear every day! But I think it's important to be in tune with your audience and see their expectations.” ThinkingGivingFirstsI CanImportantNextAsksAnswersTalkingAudienceSeeingInspireProductsExpectationsCustomersTunesFeedbackInstagramSnapchat Author:Jeffree Star
“There's nothing like getting feedback that's positive and supportive. That's what I'm all about. I'm really just genuinely doing good music. I'm not looking to be on the cover of magazines and I'm not in it for the fame. I'm not in it for selling or the biggest Pop song in the world. I have to go for critically acclaimed. I'd rather go for my peers that I look up to say "I listen to her record." I'd rather do a small little touring venue that has two people who support me as opposed to thousands of people. I mean if it happens, it happens but I'm doing it for me.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksMeanLittlesTwoHappensSongSupportRecordsFamePopsSellingMagazinesLook UpPeersSupportiveFeedbackTouringDoing GoodVenuesPop SongSupport Me Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.” ArtFormMusic IsGet BetterFeedback Author:Nick Valensi
“Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantSaidRecordsPressesUpsetFeedback Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers that do like to be told thank you for your service. The ones who don't like to be told are the ones who've been through serious sh*t. They don't care about feedback. They did their job. They did what they have to do. Sometimes the people that thank them are exactly the ones they don't want to be thanked by.” PeopleSometimesCareSeriousSoldierFeedback Author:Garrett Hedlund
“As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.” GivingDirectCriticismBubblesFeedback Author:Robert Reich
“Eventually that's where you want to be really scrappy as an entrepreneur when you're first getting your business up and running: hiring the right people, partnering the right way, getting feedback on what you're doing.” PeopleRunningEntrepreneurFeedbackHiring Author:Alexis Maybank
“With resilience you are learning to be flexible and take feedback on how people are experiencing what you are building, you're listening to what your customers are saying, you're building these relationships, and making better decisions over time. That all really starts with that resilience and that willingness not to be perfect.” PeopleDecisionPerfectBuildingListeningResilienceWillingnessFeedback Author:Alexis Maybank
“Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading to each other and giving each other little bits of encouragement and feedback and thoughts, I think that's an incredibly rich experience because what it does is it gives you a sense of community but also purpose. If I know I'm going to meet you in a cafe next Tuesday, I'm going to write something that I can hand to you. Discipline is such a challenge for so many writers and so I think that that's a key benefit of being in a group.” ThinkingGivingWritingImportantPurposeReadingCommunityChallengesRichDisciplineLonelyEncouragementMeetingsFeedbackTuesday Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.” AbilityPowerfulFeedback Author:Lydia Polgreen
“The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.” ImportantTruth IsAbsenceFeedback Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“As we started working with leaders, providing them with assessment feedback, noticing the impact it was having on them, and their teams, a real story unfolded, and the book All the Leader You Can Be became what it is now - a guide to leaders who want to understand their strengths, and also appreciate how to enhance their leadership.” BookRealLeaderTeamAppreciateFeedbackNoticing Author:Suzanne Bates
“We become overly reliant on the strengths that got us where we are today. We also become isolated as we move up in the organization. Unless we have the benefit of assessment, and unless we invite feedback on our leadership, we continue to lean on strengths that can actually work against us, and fail to expand our leadership style in a way that makes us more effective.” TodayMovingFailingStyleFeedback Author:Suzanne Bates
“I'm the CEO of a small growing company, and at each stage of our growth, it's become apparent to me that I need to adapt my leadership style and learn new approaches. When I completed the assessment, asking my own team to provide feedback on the 15 qualities of presence, I learned a lot about the leader I have yet to become.” GrowthQualityLeaderTeamStyleCeoFeedback Author:Suzanne Bates
“Mo Willems was so helpful. I had met him a number of times, and I knew from his books how funny he was, of course, but it was really neat to be able to have his feedback. He's so great with comic timing. Working with him was like taking a master class in comic timing, because he could pinpoint right away if a section wasn't working. I remember him saying once, "No, you need a beat between this page and this page," and it was like, oh yeah, of course. I hadn't seen it, but being so good at what he does, Mo noticed it right away.” BookRememberComicHelpfulTimingFeedbackNeat Author:Laurie Keller
“I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.” PeopleTryingKindTalentExcitingWitnessFeedback Author:A-Trak
“I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself than I had ever known. I wish I would have learned what I learned about myself I learned in rehab, going through life. You know, we're all raised to be loved. We care about what other people think of us, and sometimes to our detriment we let feedback and the opinions of others shape our own self-image. I was guilty of that, too. But in my professional life, I had mastered it. I didn't care what the critics said.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCarePainWishOpinionCriticsGuiltyThank GodFeedback Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our mission is to help people discover and support great journalism. But something like Blendle, asking micropayments for journalism, hasn't been done before on this scale and with our broad support from media companies. So we want to do it well and listen very carefully to the feedback of our users first. That feedback from the early community is very important to us.” PeopleImportantDoneHelpingCommunitySupportJournalismUsersFeedback Author:Alexander Klopping
“We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They need more study of outer space and DNA. They need more exciting teaching, more fair-minded encouragement, more career guidance, more mentorship. Both students and teachers need more feedback. It would help if we stopped protecting bad teachers - It's very difficult to get rid of even sexual perverts let alone just bad teachers.” HelpingDifficultStudyTeacherTeachingStudentsExcitingEncouragementGuidanceFeedbackInvolvementOuter Space Author:Michio Kaku
“What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.” RunningBrainConsciousnessDogGeniusTomorrowComplexityFeedbackHallmark Author:Michio Kaku
“I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about them. They don't listen to anybody! My job is simply to describe what I'm shown in my head so that folks who read the books get an idea of what I'm seeing. As long as that happens, I'm doing my job as best I can.” ThinkingLongBookCareFeedback Author:J.R. Ward
“My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting... and then rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite. Chris Gethard and I have been on the road a lot together. When we get on the bus at night, we talk about the jokes that didn't work and the joke possibilities that could work. I think this is a little different from other writers.” ThinkingWritingTryingDifferentTogetherNightAudiencePossibilityJokesBusWriting ProcessFeedback Author:Mike Birbiglia
“For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something." Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.” PeopleArtistSimpleResponseFeedback Author:Casey Neistat
“Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just like you, waiting your turn to go in and embarrass yourself, and then waiting around for feedback, which never comes. I really like that. For a young artist, it seems like the perfect thing to be doing, humiliation, over and over and over and over. Which I'm sure can't be the way that some people look at it, but I thought that was so great. The point of it is if you make your own stuff you don't have to deal with other people's bullshit.” PeopleArtistGuyWaitingPerfectLike YouOfficeStrangerBullshitHumiliationFeedbackOther Guys Author:Thomas McDonell
“I started blogging because I didn't know if I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to talk to other people online who were doing art, so I would post work and ask for feedback. I loved that an artist like James Jean would show his process on his blog. It became this open dialogue that, unfortunately, we don't have a lot in the fine-art world. People will say, "Wow, you share a lot." I'm like, "No, I make it a point to." Instagram is a great place for people to share failure. I don't want people to think that being an artist is some glamorous life.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtArtistShareDialogueOnlineFeedbackGlamorousBeing An Artist Author:Toyin Odutola
“I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.” AudienceWeekExcitingWaveInstantObscureFeedback Author:Veronica Vasicka
“I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.” PeopleKindEnergyBe KindFeedback Author:Jonathan Coulton