When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.
That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."
Don't compromise when you're right.
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.'
If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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.
I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.
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.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
Lasting change is a series of compromises.
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.
You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.
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.
I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.
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.
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
"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.
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.
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.
Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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.
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.
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."
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