Jessica Savitch famous quotes

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Hard Work #Two #Eight

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Motivational #Monday #Sight

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Wrinkles #News #Television

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Attitude #Focus #Prejudice

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Events #News #Literature

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Half #Literature #Surprise

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mother #Wanted

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Believe #Style #Earth

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Salary #Irs #Belief

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Texas #Weather #Waiting

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
-- Jessica Savitch

#War #Honor #Literature

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
-- Jessica Savitch

#News #Substance #Television

Television is intensely personal.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Television

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Balance #Gains #News

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Anchors #Focus #News

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
-- Jessica Savitch

#Taken #Finals #Literature

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Snakes #Lifelong #Phobia

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Husband #Jealous #Want

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Facts #Modern Life

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Peers #Literature #Serious

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Careers #Effort #Joints

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Birthday #Writing #Age

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mean #Cake #Half

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Real #Real Life #Events

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Mistake #Ineptitude #Results

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Blood #Shields #Doe

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Cameras #News

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
-- Jessica Savitch

#Men #Wife #Faces

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Important #Literature #Firsts

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Important #Panama Canal #Months

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Writing #Listening #Looks

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Real #Ideas #Television

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Code #Restroom

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Coverage

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Single Life #Life Is

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Girl #Growing Up #Want

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Air #Quality #Literature

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
-- Jessica Savitch

#People #Cameras #Groups

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Marriage #Jobs #Children

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Stars #May #Chance

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Jobs #Long #Losing

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
-- Jessica Savitch

#People #Rooms #Worst

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Fire #People #News

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Character #Texas #Literature

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Media #Information #Enterprise

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Anchors #News #Literature

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
-- Jessica Savitch

#War #Racing #Robbery

Being a novelty had its advantages.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Literature #Novelty #Advantage

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Car #Tanks #Covering

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Nbc #Careers #Magazines

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Police #Literature #Crime

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Play #Literature #Audience

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Goal #Literature #Setting Goals

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Goal #Literature

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Girl #Jobs #College

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Successful #News #Literature

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Attention #Literature #Unattractive

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Tired #Musical #Directors

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
-- Jessica Savitch

#Literature #Planning #Management