14 Quotes by Peter Walker

I delve into the mysterious and counterintuitive world of helmets and high-visibility gear later in the book. But it's worth immediately noting this: while they're not inherently bad, they're less a safety device for cycling than a symptom of a road network where no cyclist can truly feel safe.

He goes above and beyond the call of duty and Lebanon is on the map because of his hard work.

That would be interesting to me even if there wasn't a museum.

We have to structure and fund our emergency services internationally, the same way we do domestically. We don't wait until a house catches fire, then raise money for the fire department.

The park, the woods, represents life. You go down to the memorial and come back up, it represents catharsis. It represents coming from death to life.

When a government has to cut back on spending, where does it cut back? Inevitably on health care and education.

Five years ago, we were assisting about half a million people in flooding. Last year, it was 5.5 million.

Developing the plan, I realized I really need to emphasize what makes (me) different from everybody else. In the landscape industry where price is usually the bottom line, it's really tough to sell yourself on any point other than that, but it's something that, in order to survive, you need to do to set yourself apart.

All around the world the stress levels of business leaders shot up last year, whether economic activity in their country was picking up or slowing down. Thailand was no exception, with business leaders increasing their stress levels to find opportunities in the current economic climate and also worrying about future political and environmental factors.