Deborah Norville Quotations

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.

There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

I loved it. It was fun saying hi to people. When someone would ask what I was doing there, I would say I was going car-to-car trying to get viewers. A couple days later, I heard on the news that there was a major traffic backup at the tunnel. Imagine the problems I could have created.

I actually love that song, the whole story about Francis Scott Key looking out over the water to see if we had won or lost the battle, but it's a tough song. I was nervous, but the lady playing the big organ told me about all the people who had messed up, so I figured if I made a mistake, I'd be OK.

Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.

The reason the board of directors voted to discontinue the program was for lack of national sponsors. I think it's a sad commentary on the world we live in today, if nowhere in this 500-channel, 24/7 broadcast day can they find room for a program that celebrates girls for being good.

This is what women, a little more than 100 years ago, were being told how life should be lived,

The ladies who ran the contest said, 'Well honey, don't you sing while you sew or maybe you tap dance while you sew?' I said, 'No ma'am, I just sort of sit there.' That was not what they wanted to hear.

In this cluttered media landscape, recognition and the automatic, encyclopedic knowledge you have about a bona fide celebrity like Katie, is a very valuable commodity.