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• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Vacuums, Audience, Performers

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• Continuous delivery without continuous feedback is very, very dangerous.

  Colin Humphreys

  Dangerous, Delivery

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• Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

  Carl Shapiro

  Strong, Weak, Grows

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• Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

  Michael Josephson

  Thinking, Effort, Next

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• It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Giving, Important

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Done, Want

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• Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

  Mother Teresa

  Block, Failure, Expansion

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• I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

  Elon Musk

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". TED2013, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Get Better, Plans, Transparent

  "Shantanu Narayen on Adobe’s Future Direction: Product Strategy for the Next Generation of the Web". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 16, 2007.

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• 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

  Hate, Cocky, Men

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

  Elon Musk

  Negative, Negative Feedback

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

  John P. Kotter

  Powerful, Information, Action

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

  Christopher Darden

  Believe, Book, Editors

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• Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

  Kent Beck

  Design, Research, Lag

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• Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prejudice, Belief, Judgment

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being”, p.53, Harmony

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• Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Hurt, Criticism, Negative

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• We swim in an ocean of feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Ocean, Swim

  Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen (2014). “Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well”, p.12, Penguin

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• One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.

  John Astin

  Appreciation, Giving, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

  Tim Harford

  Design, Trying, World

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• There are a few people that I always say, "Hey, what do you think of this?" The minute that you know that you want this particular person to hear it, you know that you're pretty much done - although you're doing it to hear some feedback. It's a smart move to know whose ears you want.

  John Cale

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Melissa Locker, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

  Greg Grunberg

  Important, Information, Stuff

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Scott Weiss

  People, Leader, Way

  "Treating the Dysfunctional CEO". scott.a16z.com. December 6, 2011.

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• But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

  Squarepusher

  Track, Gigs, Bedroom

  "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.

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