Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist.
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.
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.
Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
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.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
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.
Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer
I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. . . so just make the request.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
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.
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 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.
The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
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.
Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
Great questions make great reporting.