Diane Sawyer Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

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

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

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!'

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.

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

I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

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

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

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,

Memory diffuses fact.

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

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

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

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

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?'

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.

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.

I think no one knows my politics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hope changes everything, doesn't 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.

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.

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

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

She (Brown) will have employee supervisory duties, ... She will be overseeing the Currituck Visitors Center and we offered it to her because she is working out at the visitors center two to three days per week.

She even looks fabulous early in the morning.

My involvement with them (TDA) is to give them ideas. But not necessarily who will be on the board.

My involvement with them (TDA) is to give them ideas, ... But not necessarily who will be on the board.

Jake, I saw that you talked to him. What adjective did he use for what he said?

It does mix it up, because sometimes she'll take on the role of putting frogs in Charlie's shoes and sometimes I will, ... combination of wicked wit and absolutely saintly spirit.

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.

What did you have to teach him about prosecuting a case?

Is there one image, ... that symbolizes to you the dimension of what happened?

They were keeping it very private because it was not easy.

David Palmer is a possibility as well. They (county commissioners) have talked about him.

Do I talk to Brad? Yes, we do, I do,

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.

This is a very big project, ... won't be as intense with 20/20.

I mean, these are vehicles that both of us are in, on a continuous basis, ... Good Morning America.

He really did make us raise our sights.

And it's not just us, I've seen other journalists doing it as well, anything that we have we're giving, ... Good Morning America.