Quotes About Feedback

"Setbacks and feedback aren't about our abilities, they are information you could use to help yourself learn."

— Carol Dweck

"Clear feedback is the cornerstone of improvement."

— Sir David Brailsford

"People with growth mind-set fosters a hunger for feedback and a greater ability to deal with setbacks and significantly better performance over time."

— Carol Dweck

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

— Ken Blanchard

"Feedback can be the information that drives the formative process, or it can be a stumbling block that derails the process."

— Brookhart

"It is having the intensity and will to devote the majority of your time to seeking out the difficult and/or painful things you don't do well and then getting to work on improving in those areas. It also includes having others tell us exactly what's not right after each unsuccessful attempt so we can keep working at it until we get better."

— Geoff Colvin

"People with fixed mind-set dislike and resist useful negative feedback."

— Carol Dweck

"You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedbacks, particularly from friends."

— Elon musk

"There is no failure. Only feedback."

— Robert Allen

"You want to be extra-rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback."

— Elon Musk

"The merits of innovation vs customer feedback"

— Unknown

"Negative feedback can make people feel inferior."

— Adam Grant

"Deliberate practice is not fun, it takes effort"

— Unknown

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"

— Henry Ford

"Effective feedback motivates, helps individual be a better version of self, helps businesses improve on performance, promotes growth and also, open up opportunities for learning and development."

— Temitope Adelekan

"If you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well."

— Bill Parcells, Head Coach, New York Giants

"Ask for feedback from people from diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources."

— Steve Jobs

"Everyone who has achieved exceptional performance has encountered terrible difficulties along the way. There are no exceptions."

— Geoff Colvin

"True innovation is created by singularly gifted visionaries who ignore customer input and instead manufacture innovation based solely on their prophetic vision for a better future."

— Unknown

"People with growth mind-set learn from criticism, people with a fixed mind-set ignore useful negative feedback"

— Carol Dweck

"Feedback when given well should not alienate the receiver of the feedback, but should motivate them to perform better."

— Anonymous

"Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this impact can be either positive or negative."

— Hattie & Timperley

"It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyse it, and appropriately act on it."

— Stephen Covey,

"It's the quality of the feedback rather than its existence or absence that determines its power."

— Stiggins

"Most people giving you feedback are going to come from both a place of genuinely trying to help as well as competing with you, and it's up to you to understand their perspective."

— Anonymous

"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes."

— Daniel Kahneman

"Deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them."

— Geoff Colvin

"What she found was that those with a fixed mind-set were only interested in hearing feedback that reflected directly on their present ability, but tuned out information that could help them learn and improve. They even showed no interest in hearing the right answer when they had gotten a question wrong, because they had already filed it away in the failure category. Those with a growth mind-set, on the other hand, were keenly attentive to information that could help them expand their existing knowledge and skill, regardless of whether they'd gotten the question right or wrong - in other words, their priority was learning, not the binary trap of success and failure."

— Carol Dweck, from her research

"Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction."

— Robert Kiyosaki