People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
Interpretation
Shyness does not prevent someone from being successful in a public setting like television.
Diane Sawyer challenges the common belief that shyness is an impediment to success in visible roles such as television. She highlights that introverted individuals can excel in these fields, demonstrating that personal traits do not define one's capabilities or potential achievements.
In practice
In a discussion about overcoming personal barriers in a career, this quote can be inspiring.
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.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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