John Dalton Quotes (17 Quotes)

If you can't agree on a common vision, how can you work together as partners I hope the people of Waterville understand that there are a lot of very civic-minded people who worked really hard to try to make this happen.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

While we've been arguing in the Philippines (as to who is at fault), business-oriented producers, consolidators, shippers and transport companies in Singapore, Malaysia and China have been developing strategies to efficiently compete in global markets. They're winning we're losing.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.

The anti-tax groups, or those that are against it, put out partial information, and we wanted to find some way of getting accurate information out to all the people,

It's consolidated the smokers in certain areas. You find more people in alleys now.

They really haven't gotten to see me in the courtroom and there's no way they could really make an informed decision on who to endorse,

He's an agent of change. Whenever you are like that, there will be people who disagree with you.

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

It's been a constant battle, ... I can't get behind this project because of that. ... If we bond it, John Q. Citizen has to pay for it. I think we're missing a real opportunity to be real stewards with residents' money.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

They're a private organization, ... They can do what they please. But if I were running things I at least would've given both candidates a chance to speak so they could make an informed decision.

Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.

Nobody ever contacted me, ... I heard after the fact that Chris got the endorsement. ... I didn't even get the opportunity to speak to them.

We have added nobody in the last four years to that department, ... We have an opportunity to fix a couple of significant areas and, at the same time, recoup most of our costs. ... This is going to be a full-time job for the first year or so.