I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Interpretation
Memory can alter our perceptions of past events, blending reality with interpretation.
Diane Sawyer highlights the intriguing relationship between memory and fact, suggesting that our recollections are often not accurate reflections of reality. Instead, memory can distort facts, leading to a complex interplay where subjective experiences shape and sometimes skew our understanding of what actually happened.
In practice
Discussing the reliability of eyewitness testimony in a legal setting.
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.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.
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