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.
Interpretation
Exploring the unknown can bring relief from sadness and provide a fresh perspective.
Diane Sawyer's quote emphasizes the therapeutic effects of stepping into unfamiliar territory as a means of alleviating feelings of sadness or melancholy. By taking the time to explore new experiences, one can gain clarity and relief from burdens before returning to their usual life, suggesting that change and exploration are essential for emotional well-being.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change.
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.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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