Jessica Savitch Quotes

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

Motivational, Matter, Goals

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

Work, Hard, Two

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

Life, Women, Men

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

Serious, Wanted, Accepted

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

Women, Jealous, Attention

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

Off, Means, Cake

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

Marriage, Career, Same

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

Blood, Invisible, Press

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

Work, Age, Time

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

Life, Real, Less

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

Death, Wife, After

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

Mistakes, Someone, Result

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

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

Men, Control, Off

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

Time, Earth, Believing

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

Life, Success, Surprise

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

Between, Individual, Belief

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

Weather, Wait, Texas

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

Cannot, Nor, News

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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Good, Television, News

Television is intensely personal.
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Personal, Television, Intensely

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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Good, Balance, Public

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

Focus, News, Anchor

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

Woman, Show, Seen

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

Group, Stand, Camera

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 1, 1947

Died: October 23, 1983

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