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.
Diane Sawyer

Life, Yourself, Enough

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

May, Months, Six

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

Follow, Passionate, Guide

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

Time, Technology, Important

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

Vote, Present, Tense

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

Mistakes, Small, Start

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

Learned, Attention, Lesson

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

Love, American, Soon

Great questions make great reporting.
Diane Sawyer

Great, Questions, Reporting

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
Diane Sawyer

Hope, Everything, Changes

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

Saying, Why, Brave

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

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

End, Beginning, Less

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

Sense, Commitment, Ordinary

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

Liberal, News, Definition

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

Time, Worry, Hair

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

Love, Matter, Story

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

Learned, Attention, Lesson

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

Fact, Memory, Fascinated

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

Sure, Telling, Pollsters

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

Good, Follow, Cats

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

War, Face, Terrorism

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

Wrong, Television, Shy

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

Change, Mind, Find

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

Fun, Learn, Getting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 22, 1945

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