Gleaned Quotes

#1. Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.

Clayton Christensen

#2. Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Alexander Wilson

#3. Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.

Anne Mallory

#4. Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

Isaac Asimov

#5. Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art ...

Michael Kimmelman

#6. An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

Henry Rollins

#7. As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

Frank Delaney

#8. It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.

Karen Kain

#9. We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Henry Miller

#10. When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.

John Keats

#11. The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.

Robin R. Murphy

#12. If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

Wilhelm Wien

#13. I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

George W. Crane

#14. I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

David Mamet

#15. You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

Jordan Belfort

#16. I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

Maryrose Wood

#17. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

#18. Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.

Jasper Fforde

#19. I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Nicole Luiken

#20. I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#21. My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

Donna Mills

#22. ... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.

Ernesto Spinelli

#23. Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

Mike Pence

#24. A traditionalist's values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

Fennel Hudson

#25. How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.

Jonathan Franzen

#26. On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that - way down deep inside - he's all cold and detached.

Harlan Coben

#27. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

Melissa Joan Hart

#29. On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.

David Gregory

#30. We must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.

Charles Bukowski