I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
Interpretation
Work can offer rewarding experiences that contribute to personal growth.
Diane Sawyer's quote highlights the value of work as a source of enrichment in our lives. Rather than viewing work merely as a duty or obligation, she emphasizes the opportunities it presents to encounter new information, experiences, and insights that can inspire and uplift us, ultimately contributing to our overall sense of fulfillment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding job satisfaction.
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 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.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
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