“Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.” PeopleWorldIdeasCommunityChallengesWalksPowerfulCareersOffersSmellCirclesBackgroundsAround The WorldVarietyAccountingAppearingAccountantsKiwi Author:Philip Roth
“I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.” WorldPersonsTwoUseGivenWalksHalfWonderStepsFiveThousandLifetimeAverageMilesAround The WorldSixtyThousand MilesHalf Time Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.” WorldWayChildrenBookBornWalksCommonSituationRolesAround The WorldPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Stanislaw Lem
“There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."” IfsKnowsWorldWayKindHas BeensCertainUnderstandingWalksWalkingWho You AreAround The WorldSilverStrandsSpunIntersections Author:Richard Bach
“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingMayLittlesTwoIdeasDifferentSometimesHomeWould BeTogetherDesireBornImaginationWalksWonderMillionsCreativeCuttingBuiltCookingAround The WorldMeatUnusualVegetablesRecipesVariationSauceProvence Author:James Beard
“You cannot walk away. The truth is that there is no magic way that you can say to your partners, "You are going to continue paying us the money and we will not keep our part of the deal." This is not possible around the world. It is good to hear it.” WorldWayWalksDealsMagicTruth IsPartnersAround The World Author:Dora Bakoyannis