Words matter. These are the best Katty Kay Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
If we can bring our perception of our ability in line with our actual ability then we have the capacity to be authentic. Then we can accept we are as good as we really are.
Conservatives in the American heartland have long believed, with some justification, that they can’t get a fair hearing in America’s mainstream press, which they see as overwhelmingly coastal and liberal.
People are far too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what’s happening to other people. Even if it is a moment’s hot gossip, it’s only that – a moment.
History reminds us, however, that good doesn’t always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.
It’s never clear to me why it’s so hard for people to say sorry. It’s a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.
Confidence has nothing to do with a manner. Its to do with a belief that you can succeed at something.
Every man who has a sister, mother, wife, girlfriend or even a random female in their life who they’ve spent more than three minutes with knows that telling a woman they’ve gained weight is just never going to go down well.
I think its important for women to recognize that its totally normal for us to feel nervous, particularly in situations in which were so often the only woman in the room.
I honestly do not know a woman, in any profession, at any level, who has not at some point, often at many points, had to repudiate the unwanted advances of a man they’ve worked with or for. We shouldn’t have to.
American prides itself on being centrist, on not having the European tendency of flirting with extremist groups.
Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.
Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.
Globalisation, with inexorable speed, has changed the world we live in. For all of us. Jobs have changed, the way we trade has changed, who we employ has changed and the feel of where we live has changed.
Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the ‘Financial Times’ economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.
The other day I noticed my 12-year-old daughter was getting stressed about a grade she was due on a science test. The grade came back and it was absolutely fine but she felt it wasnt good enough. That was my red alert for this issue of perfectionism.
About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, ‘My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.’
Weight is an intensely personal, sensitive and often tricky issue for women and it is something women talk about a lot among themselves, usually with empathy and support.
For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.
Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often can’t provide single-handedly for their families, as their fathers and grandfathers did. That alone causes a loss of pride.
Politicians live in mortal terror of ever saying they are sorry about anything, because that would suggest they have been wrong. It is often a trait of powerful people not to want to be seen to back down.
I’ve always prided myself on embracing the concept that almost no-one is indispensible, certainly not a news reporter.
The reasons America isnt liked in various countries isnt uniform. The reasons can be different.
Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.
When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.
I’m not going to thank the man who told me I had no character. I’m not that magnanimous, and he could do with lessons in people management.
My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who always worked, even in really tough circumstances.
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head, they offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems.
I read the news every night to millions of people around the world. It doesnt test my confidence.
But what attracts me to the study of confidence is that it is something women can address themselves, individually and immediately.
There are plenty who believe that Britain pays too much into the EU and gets too little back and that the UK will be better off when it is unshackled from the weight of the troubled EU economies.
It makes a good case that women in charge would mean fewer wars, a different management style and more embracing of other peoples views. But in the business and personal world, its not that women are better than men. Its that they bring different perspectives and skills.
If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.
Confidence is not the same as self-esteem.
Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation – voters don’t care much. They blame immigrants. It’s easier to get mad at a person from Macedonia or Mexico, taking your job than it is to get mad at a piece of technology from Silicon Valley.
Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.
A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it’s a useful weapon of soft power.
I like trying new things. You only have one life.
I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.
Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.
When I started on Twitter, I was just staggered by how rude people could be.
In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.
America is learning the art of humility. That’s a good thing for the rest of the world.
Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.
I love meeting American voters. I get to interview a lot of politicians but I always enjoy interviewing ordinary people the most – though most of them are anything but ordinary. Everyone has an interesting story to tell.