Don Watson
Don Watson
Don Watsonis an Australian author and public speaker...
artist hands creative
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
almost cried looking lost quit saw
I can't quit looking at it. I lost my house, my truck, everything. But I almost cried when I saw that.
explain grandma plane worship
How would they explain that as they got off the plane at Beirut? ... How would they tell grandma under a cypress tree: They wanted us to worship a donkey!?
marketing language cynicism
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
beauty beautiful trying
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...
years skins criticism
I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.
passion artist enthusiasm
Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.
hate style working-it
I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.
media language
Language is butchered by the media
trying jargon figures
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
class language
The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense
together language knows
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
adjust game poor position positive season time win
To the team's credit, after such a poor first game, they started to do some things right to win game two and we were in position to win game three. It's a long season and we have time to adjust and do some positive things.
hits rock time win
It was a long time coming, but Hinckley-Big Rock hits the win column.