Jessica Savitch Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

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

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

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

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

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

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

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.