Receptive to Feedback Quotes

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."

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

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.

There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

I love constructive criticism.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.