Quotes from Diane Sawyer

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people. --Diane Sawyer quoted from her father

That conference you're going

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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