Compromise Quotes - Page 4

• You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

  Alain Prost

  Team, Building, Team Building

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Fear, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Middle, Middle Ground

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  Ed Wood

  Artist, Vision, Want

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Artist, Choices

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• But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

  Jeff Miller

  Commitment, Political, Gains

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• The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

  Steve Chabot

  Needs, Vote, More Money

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• And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

  Roger Mudd

  Competition, Stories, Ethical

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• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Balance

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

  Kelli White

  Integrity, Drug, Different

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• But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

  Gregory Harrison

  Song, Albums, Protected

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• I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Cutting, Tree

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• If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

  Tim Robbins

  Integrity, Finding Yourself, Ifs

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• But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

  Jimmy Page

  Cds, Two, Impossible

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• This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Effort, Java, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Men, Should Have

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• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  Larry Wall

  Playing Games, Programming, Software Engineering

  Usenet article, 1991.

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• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

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• Politics is compromise.

  Paddy Ashdown

  "Farewell, Sarajevo". www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Wish, Three

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

  John Marshall

  Yield, Return, Resolution

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• I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

  Esther Peterson

  Taught, Resolution, Win Win

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Choices, Principles

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