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Top 15 Don Watson Quotes (2025 Update)

Don Watson Quote: “Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.”

1. “Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.”

Don Watson Quote: “Language is butchered by the media.”

2. “Language is butchered by the media.”

Don Watson Quote: “I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it’s my own.”

3. “I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it’s my own.”

Don Watson Quote: “Michael Young, the English sociologist who coined the term “meritocracy,” despised the fashion for it: first, because it is largely a smug fantasy perpetuated by those who sit at the top of the social pyramid; and second, because it bestows on those at the bottom the slur that they are there because they have no merit. Even feudalism spared the poor that insult: their lowly station was an accident of birth.”

4. “Michael Young, the English sociologist who coined the term “meritocracy,” despised the fashion for it: first, because it is largely a smug fantasy perpetuated by those who sit at the top of the social pyramid; and second, because it bestows on those at the bottom the slur that they are there because they have no merit. Even feudalism spared the poor that insult: their lowly station was an accident of birth.”

Don Watson Quote: “Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say.”

5. “Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say.”

Don Watson Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Don Watson Quote: “Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.”

7. “Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.”

Don Watson Quote: “The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense.”

8. “The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense.”

Don Watson Quote: “The strip runs forever along the Gulf Coast, and it makes you wonder why, on the night of Katrina, the Holy Comforter didn’t take the opportunity to make a more comprehensive town-planning statement.”

9. “The strip runs forever along the Gulf Coast, and it makes you wonder why, on the night of Katrina, the Holy Comforter didn’t take the opportunity to make a more comprehensive town-planning statement.”

Don Watson Quote: “Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”

10. “Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”

Don Watson Quote: “Crockery has been withdrawn from American culture below a certain level.”

11. “Crockery has been withdrawn from American culture below a certain level.”

Don Watson Quote: “It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.”

12. “It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.”

Don Watson Quote: “Hubris is an incurable American disease. As incurable as the military-industrial machine that keeps coming up with the armaments that make wars seem like slam dunks, but which last for decades; wars that are fought by a very small percentage of the population and, regular effusive acknowledgement of veterans notwithstanding, can be ignored for years.”

13. “Hubris is an incurable American disease. As incurable as the military-industrial machine that keeps coming up with the armaments that make wars seem like slam dunks, but which last for decades; wars that are fought by a very small percentage of the population and, regular effusive acknowledgement of veterans notwithstanding, can be ignored for years.”

Don Watson Quote: “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...”

14. “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...”

Don Watson Quote: “Decried every day as a feckless thing without initiative or ambition, a thing not to be mentioned in the same breath as private enterprise, government became that thing. First sequester its responsibilities, sell off its functions, grant it no respect; run it into the ground and then declare it incompetent.”

15. “Decried every day as a feckless thing without initiative or ambition, a thing not to be mentioned in the same breath as private enterprise, government became that thing. First sequester its responsibilities, sell off its functions, grant it no respect; run it into the ground and then declare it incompetent.”

Don Watson Quote: “Similarly, dubbing everyone whose reading of history leads them to conclusions different from the preferred ones black-armband historians; channelling frustrations felt by the politically powerless to the politically correct; isolating chattering classes and elites from a pretended mainstream – all these and many terms of political abuse are common and inevitable in democracies – and all have parallels in tyrannies.”

16. “Similarly, dubbing everyone whose reading of history leads them to conclusions different from the preferred ones black-armband historians; channelling frustrations felt by the politically powerless to the politically correct; isolating chattering classes and elites from a pretended mainstream – all these and many terms of political abuse are common and inevitable in democracies – and all have parallels in tyrannies.”

Don Watson Quote: “When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don’t mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They’re often the worst liars of the lot.”

17. “When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don’t mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They’re often the worst liars of the lot.”

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