Top 100 Christiane Quotes
#1. I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
Anthony Bourdain
#2. U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
Christiane Amanpour
#3. I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#4. I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
Christiane Amanpour
#5. become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.
Christiane Northrup
#6. We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Christiane Collange
#7. But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
Christiane Amanpour
#8. Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good
Christiane Northrup
#9. True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.
Christiane Northrup
#10. But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
Christiane Amanpour
#11. Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
Christiane Amanpour
#12. the hermetic philosophy of the harmony between man and nature contained in the phrase "As above, so below.
Christiane Northrup
#13. [A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately.
Christiane Northrup
#14. Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first
not through intellectual understanding.
Christiane Northrup
#16. Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.
Christiane Northrup
#17. It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#18. Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#19. How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?
Christiane Collange
#20. Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night
Christiane Northrup
#22. Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
Christiane Amanpour
#23. Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Christiane Northrup
#24. When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.
Christiane Northrup
#25. I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#28. They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
Christiane Amanpour
#29. In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#30. Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?
Christiane Northrup
#31. The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.
Christiane Northrup
#32. What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
Christiane Amanpour
#33. The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It's very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives.
Christiane Northrup
#35. with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.
Christiane Northrup
#36. At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#37. The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.
Christiane Northrup
#38. Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
Christiane Amanpour
#39. 'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
Christiane Amanpour
#40. We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe.
If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy.
Christiane Northrup
#41. I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#43. When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your health is like in that moment.
Christiane Northrup
#44. I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.
Christiane Amanpour
#45. I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#46. Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.
Christiane Amanpour
#47. I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#48. There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.
Christiane Amanpour
#49. If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
Christiane Amanpour
#50. We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.
Christiane Northrup
#51. I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.
Christiane Northrup
#52. The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#53. The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here.
Christiane Northrup
#54. According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.
Christiane Northrup
#55. Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals.
Christiane Northrup
#56. In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
Christiane Amanpour
#57. Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.
Christiane Northrup
#58. I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#59. And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
Christiane Amanpour
#60. hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment - and health. Though we've too often been talked out of our desires as children,
Christiane Northrup
#61. The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.
Christiane Northrup
#62. Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
Christiane Amanpour
#64. If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.
Christiane Northrup
#65. I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#66. Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!
Christiane Northrup
#67. Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: "Yes!" and "Not now" and "No, because I love you too much.
Christiane Northrup
#68. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
Christiane Amanpour
#70. My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."
Christiane Northrup
#71. I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.
Christiane Northrup
#72. becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself.
Christiane Northrup
#73. Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.
Christiane Northrup
#74. If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.
Christiane Northrup
#75. I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#76. For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Christiane Amanpour
#77. We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
Christiane Amanpour
#78. Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.
Christiane Northrup
#79. In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
Christiane Amanpour
#80. We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
Christiane Amanpour
#81. Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#82. The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#83. The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox.
Christiane Northrup
#84. To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.
Christiane Northrup
#86. We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.
Christiane Northrup
#87. I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.
Christiane Northrup
#88. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.
Christiane Northrup
#89. By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.
Christiane Northrup
#90. I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
Christiane Amanpour
#91. I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
Christiane Amanpour
#92. And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Christiane Amanpour
#93. Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth
Christiane Northrup
#94. Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.
Christiane Amanpour
#95. People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#96. In Celtic cultures, the young maiden was seen as the flower; the mother, the fruit; the elder woman, the seed. The seed is the part that contains the knowledge and potential of all the other parts within it.
Christiane Northrup
#98. And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
Christiane Amanpour
#99. We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. - ABRAHAM
Christiane Northrup
#100. In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
