Quotes About Compromise

Ask them a question like, 'Do you want this project to fail?' or 'Is this situation not going to work out for either side?'" They don't want to fail, so they will say "no." Now you can start to find common ground.

Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.

With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.

We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride.

quarreling avails nothing.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

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.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Unequivocally, individual human beings who live together will always have different standards of what a 'clean house' looks like.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Ideally you want every relationship to work, if it happens it's great, if it doesn't it is unfortunate.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

Marriage is a Sacrifice strictly for Selfless Duos

Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.

It's better not to argue with women.