Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Deborah Norville.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Deborah Anne Norville is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has held since March 6, 1995. She is a member of the board of directors of Paramount Global. She markets and sells a line of yarns for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
Religious people are happier.
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.
I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
When my mother passed away I was 20.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.
I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.
What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.
If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.
Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.
People who feel positively think differently. They think better.
There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.