S.J. Watson Quotes

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

No act of kindness is wasted.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Social change comes through people.

We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense