Quotes About Compromise

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

It is impossible to please all the world.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

You're never going to please 100 percent of women.

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

I can't hear anything, John. Please, would you put on your headphones?

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.

I try to please everyone.

You can't please everyone... you win some you lose some!

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

No President can achieve everything or please everyone.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

As brothers, you still get in plenty of disagreements, but I think that generally we work stuff out.

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.