The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x y or z what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.
Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors 2k insurance 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.
The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants so you could have a good night out quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.
Also I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.