I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.
You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.
There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.
Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now where they feel that they can manage themselves. We have to go through an educational process - which does not involve, in my opinion, compromises with the State. But if the State disappeared tomorrow by accident, and the police disappeared and the army disappeared and the government agencies disappeared, the ironical situation is that people would suddenly feel denuded.
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.