You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
Gesture is not always action.