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| FEEDBACK  1. A smile while giving honest criticism can make the difference between resentment and reform. ~Philip Steinmetz 2. Because of their inner rigidities, fears and anxieties, these listeners dread the mutual exchange of ideas and beliefs. They listen only to what they feel they should be attentive to, blotting out larger areas of wariness and thus avoiding the basic truth involved in issues anD situations. They are constantly suspicious and cautious about other people's reactions and set up emotional filters which disturb effective listening. Because of their hypersensitivity to criticism and rebuff, they are constantly on their guard and on the defensive. They listen with prejudiced opinions, preconceived notions, condemnations and cynical attitudes. They fear facing or listening to the truth about themselves and as a result their hearing becomes colored with absolute judgments, black and white evaluations and distorted emotional reactions. ~Dominick A. Barbara
3. Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. ~Michael J. Gelb 4. Evolution is chaos with feedback. ~Joseph Ford 5. Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you. ~Jim Rohn 6. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~Franklin P. Jones 7. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~George Orwell 8. It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. ~Dick Cavett 9. 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 10. No feedback from friends can keep us blind, but bad tongues are deadly. ~Sobonfu E. Some 11. Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren’t defeated by it. You’re learning from it. ~Bill Gates 12. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 13. Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ~Unknown 14. The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations - not yours. ~Cynthia Kersey 15. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale 16. When we consider the criticism we receive thoughtfully rather than reacting to it emotionally, we are able to judge its relative merit using reason and logic. We can determine which of those people offering unsolicited commentary are doing so because they wish to help us grow as individuals and which have less honorable intentions. Whereas once we might have only considered criticism’s potential to hurt us, we are now empowered to examine its underlying message for flashes of wisdom that can add value to our experience. Even when the judgments we receive are intended to awaken doubt within us, we can simply choose to disregard them as they offer us nothing in the way of useful guidance. Your sensitivity will not impede your purposes today when you are logical in your assessments of perceived slights. ~Unknown 17. When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. ~Rudy Giuliani 18. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid. ~Bible, Proverbs 12:1 | |
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