Sara Blakely

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

American Businesswoman

B. J. Novak

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!

American Actor

Whitney Tilson

While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.

American Businessman

Mary Harris Jones

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

American Activist

Richard Edelman

We must be able to appeal to the CCO and CMO with programs that have purpose at the core, that start movements and solicit views of the core community of brand supporters.

Abraham Lincoln

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

American President

John Gray

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.

American Author

Max Boot

Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.

Wendy Liebman

People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.

American Comedian

Jillian Michaels

If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone.

American Athlete

Used in situations where you're asking respectfully, often in non-sales-related contexts.

Polite Requests

Suggests a formal style; likely to be seen in business or organizational communications.

Professional Tone

Implies a subtle, gentle approach when asking - not demanding or abrupt.

Expressing Tact

Typically used when someone is trying to sell a product or service.

Selling Context

Often involves repeated or continuous effort, not just a single instance.

Persistent Effort

In legal or formal contexts, implies an illegal or frowned-upon request.

Illegal Connotation

Be cautious using in sensitive contexts due to its negative associations.

Sensitive Usage

Often used when seeking help or support from others, particularly in a community or public service context.

Requesting Assistance

May involve a formal request or petition, especially when addressing authority figures or institutions.

Petitioning Formally

 and we can observe and emulate experts. The observation, reflection and adjustment is a learning zone. And finally, we can lead and lower the stakes for others by sharing what we want to get better at, by asking questions about what we don't know, by soliciting feedback and by sharing our mistakes and what we've learned from them,

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 and those gentle giants are very good at doing that, soliciting them. Leaving family is a really hard things for the males, but they survive and they figure out who to hang out with. So, just to end here, I just wanted to say that since they are so similar to us, and have these characters,

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 Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. So I think that's an important thing to do, and then also to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends.

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 a common type of fraud where members make money by recruiting more people to buy in. Typically, the founder solicits an initial group of people to buy in and promote the scheme. They are then encouraged to recruit others and promised part of the money those people invest,

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 talk about how it starts let's talk about how this pair bomb begins after these birds spend years at sea they do come back to the place where they're born not just the island but even the neighborhood where they grew up one bird on the ground soliciting the

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 What's that noise there? Yeah. So, for example, in my leadership team meetings, I don't see facial expressions or gestures. I've learned to solicit a lot more verbal feedback. I basically force people to tell me what they think. And in this respect,

Isaac Lidsky: What...

 Over the years, people from all over the world had read my column, and they'd responded with letters, comments and emails. It was a mix, as is often the case, for writers. I got a lot of unsolicited advice

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 can give you story after story about all of the unsolicited and mostly unwanted donations that always seem to follow a disaster and while it may seem logical that that could help it doesn't and that

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 It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world since I gave that talk, is Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed,

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 GK's sole aim will be to mate they are very active in soliciting the male's so yeah it is almost like there it's a different gorilla from one day to the