Noel Coward thought work was more fun than fun, but he never, ever, worked in the mines. Time is money, as many merry widows have proved. Inflation rates testify to the worldwide popularity of wishful thinking. No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea oil project, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same. We're all going down the same road in different directions.
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
You have taken yourself too seriously. Either the box is too small and won't work, or it's too big and won't fit. Down deep, Murphy is shallow. The first Christian gets the hungriest lion. Accuracy is the sum total of your compensating mistakes.