Diane Sawyer Quotes

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.

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.

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

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 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?’

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

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.

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

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.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

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

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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

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.

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.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Great questions make great reporting.

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