A.M. Sawyer 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.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

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

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

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

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

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

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'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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

Honor does not have to be defended.

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

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.

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

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.

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.

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

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

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

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

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

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

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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.

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

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

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

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

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

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

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.

whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

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

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.

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