Don’t cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.
‘Compromise’ isn’t supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.
Sometimes compromise is painful.
I’m a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you’re able to see both sides of an issue. I’m also a Leo – I love astrology – so that affected me, just being a lion.
I’ve always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I’ve never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
In fact, I think – our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Most female artists – to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment – you can’t compromise, really.
You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.
I want to build a name through my roles and will not compromise with what is offered to me.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
At the end of the day, if it looks like you’re not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It’s not all about your extreme point of view.
A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine – it’s part of not being totally insane.
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
When it comes to relationship compromise, it’s a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.
I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn’t weird enough, that I wasn’t standing out enough. Wearing things to get people’s attention – I didn’t want to do any of that. I didn’t want to compromise myself.
I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise – something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.
As long as I don’t have to compromise my art, that’s the most important thing. It doesn’t matter if I’m famous or not, it’s all about the music.
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
I don’t compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don’t want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.
I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn’t ever want to have to compromise.
My music is – there’s no litmus test, there’s no political litmus test for listening to it – but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who’s uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.
We’ve all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there’s no way back, no pride to hold on to.
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
I won’t change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else’s.
You’ve got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody’s more important than the next guy, and that’s never been the case in Priest.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.
Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.
Your favourite songs by your favourite bands are never the singles. It’s when they’ve done exactly what they wanted without any compromise and not worried about the reaction.
Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.
Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.
A man’s wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that’s really Belgian. I think I’m really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That’s my problem, actually.
I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
I’m willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.
But there’s one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises – not now and not in the future.
In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there’s little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.
Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.
There’s so much compromise in politics. I’m not a good compromiser.
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
When you make something that you’re really proud of, and it doesn’t do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn’t do well.
In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They’re only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They’re trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.
Don’t react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise.
We have learned a long time ago that one cannot compromise with terrorists.
There’s certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I’m not going to compromise on; I’m not going to compromise on a woman’s right to choose and on marriage equality.
Don’t settle; don’t compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That’s why it’s so hard to do it.
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
It’s time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
All my films have been larger-than-life. And since I’ve sat on almost all the scripts of the films I’ve produced, I do not compromise on aesthetics and visuals that could add to a scene.
