Diane 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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

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

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.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

Great questions make great reporting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think no one knows my politics.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

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.

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.