Diane Sawyer Quotes

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 tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

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

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

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

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

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

The greatest act of love is to pay attention.

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.

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

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

Great questions make great reporting.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

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.

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'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!'

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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.