Compromise Quotes - Page 11

• When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

  Andy Andrews

  Principles, Ends, Emphasis

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

  Denzel Washington

  Waiting, Roles, Actors

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Don't compromise when you're right.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Dream, Humor

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• If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

  Sam Altman

  Regret, Team, Mediocre

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• The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Mother, Creative, Sides

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Believe, Creativity, Wanted

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

  Shane West

  Want, Feels, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

  Leston Havens

  Hope, Normal, Surrender

  Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

  Myles Munroe

  Character, Sacrifice, Self

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• Lasting change is a series of compromises.

  Jane Goodall

  Lasting Change, Lasting, Series

  "Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist". Interview at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, www.dailysummit.net. 2002.

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• I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.

  David Bromberg

  Winter, Years, People

  Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.

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• You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

  Peter Webber

  Want, Made, What You Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

  Jonny Lang

  Thinking, Style, Agendas

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• I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

  Jonny Lang

  Ideas, Fixed, Firm

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• I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

  Kevin Hart

  Kids, Giving, Important

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• As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Choices, Actors, Wipe

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• "Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.

  Neal Knox

  Dog, Giving Up, Mean

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Morality

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• Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Luxury, Tunes

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.405, Zondervan

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• Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

  Janis Joplin

  Self

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• Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

  Golda Meir

  Civilization, Munich, Values

  "Fictional character: Golda Meir". "Munich", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

  Bill Keller

  Understanding, Important, Division

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• I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

  Tweet

  Daughter, Want, Too Much

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

  Neil Peart

  Records, Want, Crisis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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