At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES then we want to become pioneers not in the technology but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
You can get digital technology that almost is film quality and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Some people think technology has the answers.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
The answer of course in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
In the fourth grade my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you if things in your mind aren't going right.
When one has success the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.