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.
The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes.
Yet, mad am I not β and very surely do I not dream.
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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