Diane Sawyer
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.Collection: Motivational
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Great questions make great reporting.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.
The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.
I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.
I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.Collection: One Day
Wake up curious, and determined to find an answerCollection: Wake Up
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.Collection: Beautiful
A good marriage is a contest of generosity.Collection: Marriage
Don't let other people tell you who you are.Collection: People
The dream is not the destination but the journey.Collection: Dream
Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.Collection: Love
I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truthCollection: Believe
Someone said to me... ‘A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don’t you just make the request? Why don’t you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?’Collection: Work Out
If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.Collection: Curiosity
... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.Collection: Love
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.Collection: Inspiring
I think no one knows my politics.Collection: Thinking
My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.Collection: Beautiful
A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.Collection: Criticism
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.Collection: Competition