Diane Sawyer famous quotes

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Positive #Success #Badass

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Marriage #Generosity #Good Marriage

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth
-- Diane Sawyer

#Believe #Facts #Born

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Beautiful #Dad #Home

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Space #Follow Your Heart #Purpose

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Curiosity #Rehab #Intriguing

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Love #Helping Others #People

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Competition #My Best Friend #Realizing

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Beautiful #Dad #Home

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #Listening #Attention

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Brave

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Commitment #Ordinary #Ongoing

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #People #News

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Hair #Talking #Worry

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #Facts #Manners

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
-- Diane Sawyer

Great questions make great reporting.
-- Diane Sawyer

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Lonely #Caring #Blue

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
-- Diane Sawyer

#Mistake #People #Literature

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
-- Diane Sawyer

#People #Literature #Subjectivity

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Memories #Facts #Way

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
-- Diane Sawyer

#May #Months #Interviews

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Dream #Getting Older #Different

There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Morning #Gay #America

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #Literature #Entertainment

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Asking Questions #Stories #Literature

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Smart #Needs #World

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
-- Diane Sawyer

#War #Literature #World

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Interesting #Mind #Facts

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.
-- Diane Sawyer

#One Day #Pigeons

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #Hair #Anxiety

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Fun

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?'
-- Diane Sawyer

#Work Out #Criticism #Way

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Weight #Coming Back #Found

... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Love #Pay #Attention

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Thinking #Idols #Fancy

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Integrity #Real #People

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together,
-- Diane Sawyer

#Home #Night #Brave

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Cat #Curiosity #Curious

The dream is not the destination but the journey.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Dream #Journey #Destination

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Country #Thinking #Denial

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
-- Diane Sawyer

#People #Shy #Television

Don't let other people tell you who you are.
-- Diane Sawyer

#People #Daring #Who You Are

Memory diffuses fact.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Memories #Facts #Good Memories

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer
-- Diane Sawyer

#Wake Up #Answers #Determined

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.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Technology #People #Interesting

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Ends #Middle #Get Involved