An important skill for all SpaceXers is the ability to accept critical feedback. This is key to anyone’s growth and becoming better at what they do. – Gwynne Shotwell
People online will tell you what they really think – there’s no diplomacy. They’re honest; it’s good to have the feedback immediately. – Giuseppe Zanotti
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. – Hugh Prather
With the millions of listeners to ‘Coast to Coast AM,’ I get constant feedback from people who are not happy with the current candidates. Maybe I will run for president in 2012. – George Noory
I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I’ve got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that. – Greg Brenneman
Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company. – Jay Samit
I don’t want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It’s instant feedback. It’s like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, ‘It sucks.’ – Jimmy Fallon
By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires. – Jay Samit
No matter what position you’re in, if you are receiving poor feedback from clients, co-workers, or in performance evaluations, then that’s one of the clearest signs that you’re not cut out for the job, or it’s not right for you. – John Rampton
I’m not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information. – Jason Katims
From the very first inkling of a concept, founders need to gather a target group of five to ten potential users to begin the feedback loop. We all think we know how the market will react to new ideas, but actual users live with the pros and cons of the existing market conditions every day. They are the market experts. – Jay Samit
I’m the girl that waits for the director to say, ‘I like that,’ or ‘Can you boost it up?,’ or ‘Can you pull it down?’ I’m that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that’s the feedback that I’m accustomed to. It’s the feedback that I really thrive off of. – Jill Scott
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places. – Jack Dorsey
I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business… The really savvy folks out there, they don’t necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business. – Jeremy Stoppelman
I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I’m going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love. – Greg Grunberg
I’m getting positive feedback for my acting so we’ll see if any other interesting parts come up. – Johnny Vegas
Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass. – Carlton Cuse
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. – Arne Duncan
In the ‘Angel’ days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it. – J. August Richards
If I had my way, I wouldn’t do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated. – Carol Bartz
If you’re a novelist, as I am in real life, you’re usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. – Adam Mansbach
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops. – Alex Shoumatoff
Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see ’em saying, ‘People hungry here, Fif.’ – Curtis Jackson
For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I’ve got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people. – Brantley Gilbert
Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you’re filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience. – Clarence Clemons
Playing live is really the art form. You’re a lot freer, a lot looser. You’ve got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There’s so much more energy. – Butch Trucks