Katie Couric quotes

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.
-- Katie Couric

#Inspirational #Life #Fear

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.
-- Katie Couric

#Grateful #Years #May

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.
-- Katie Couric

#Funny Inspirational #Thinking #Men

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.
-- Katie Couric

#Fearless #Risk #Guarantees

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.
-- Katie Couric

#Hypnosis #Self #Stay True

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.
-- Katie Couric

#Kindness #Assuming #Behavior

~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~
-- Katie Couric

#Mom #Art #Educational

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.
-- Katie Couric

#Inspirational #Travel #Safe

To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure every child's needs are met.
-- Katie Couric

#Country #Children #Thinking

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
-- Katie Couric

#Disappointing #Feels #Candy

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.
-- Katie Couric

#Unique #Light #Personality

Can you explain what Internet is?
-- Katie Couric

#Internet

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning
-- Katie Couric

#Morning #Smell #Estrogen

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
-- Katie Couric

#Lunch #Pie #President

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.
-- Katie Couric

#Fun #Secret #Having Fun

That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.
-- Katie Couric

#Sleep #People #News

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.
-- Katie Couric

#Bangs #World #Sparks

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
-- Katie Couric

#Thinking #Sometimes #Good Things

The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.
-- Katie Couric

#Hair #Elmo #Faces

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.
-- Katie Couric

#Love Is #Sweaters #People

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
-- Katie Couric

#Fun #Reading #People

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
-- Katie Couric

#Inspirational #Successful #Like You

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.
-- Katie Couric

#Weekend #Expression #Talking

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
-- Katie Couric

#Thinking #Winning #People

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
-- Katie Couric

#Jobs #Thinking #Worry

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.
-- Katie Couric

#Success #Attitude #Tvs

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself
-- Katie Couric

#Jobs #Thinking #Goal

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.
-- Katie Couric

#Running #Morning #School

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.
-- Katie Couric

#Blow #Literature

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.
-- Katie Couric

#Mistake #Decision #Choices

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?
-- Katie Couric

#Kids #Littles #Fighter

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.
-- Katie Couric

#Single #Block #Voice

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.
-- Katie Couric

#Inspirational #Daughter #Shelter

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
-- Katie Couric

#Morning #Blow #Media

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
-- Katie Couric

#Television #Literature #Able

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
-- Katie Couric

#Morning #Three #Literature

I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.
-- Katie Couric

#Baby #Stars #Crazy

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect, nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.
-- Katie Couric

#Perfect #Accepting #Not Perfect

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
-- Katie Couric

#Perky #Puke

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.
-- Katie Couric

#Heart #Texas #People

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane.
-- Katie Couric

#Views #Media #People

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.
-- Katie Couric

#Coffee #Funny Graduation #News

I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me.
-- Katie Couric

#Kids #Energy

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.
-- Katie Couric

#Couple #Opportunity #Thinking

Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.
-- Katie Couric

#Important #Literature #Judgment