S.J. Watson Quotes

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

Creativity is never too contrived.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

I just want to be me and play golf.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

Every day, you always have to be cognizant of your brand. I know it can cost you [future] money, but there are a lot of things more important than money that affect your brand.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.