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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

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.

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.

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

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

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.

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.

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

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.

Great questions make great reporting.

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.

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

I think no one knows my politics.

I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.

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.

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.