It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.
Source: On success on TV; in Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Diane Sawyer, (Dec 22 1945-____), US broadcast journalist; She was the first female correspondent on TV's 60 Minutes, 1984-89; host of Prime Time Live, 1989-; co-anchor of Day One and Turning Point.