Investigative Skills Quotes

To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

I think like a detective.

I have found where I am best, and that is being a fact-checker and being fearless.

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

Great questions make great reporting.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!