Years ago, before the telephone and the internal-combustion engine brought cities closer together, the parish church was traditionally the center of most Christian communities.
A deadline helps some people finish a task; the need to earn money to feed the family is an incentive to others to deliver a product on time; a watchful parent may stir up enough activity in a child for homework to be completed.
Large audiences for television interviews and talk shows with successful writers or politicians, actors or scientists, and so on may point to a general wish for evidence of man's capabilities.
