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.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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

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.

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

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

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

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

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

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I think no one knows my politics.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

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

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

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.