Diane Sawyer Quotes & Sayings

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. — Diane Sawyer

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

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. — Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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

The dream is not the destination but the journey. — Diane Sawyer

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

I think no one knows my politics. — Diane Sawyer

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

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. — Diane Sawyer

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, — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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?' — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

The most fun is getting paid to learn things. — Diane Sawyer

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

Don't let other people tell you who you are. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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

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

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!' — Diane Sawyer

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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

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

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. — Diane Sawyer

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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. — Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. — Diane Sawyer

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon. — Diane Sawyer

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

The greatest act of love is to pay attention. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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. — Diane Sawyer

Great questions make great reporting. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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. — Diane Sawyer

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

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