#compromise

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

Politics is compromise. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#politics

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#believe #career #compromise #early #eats

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#art #attention #because #been #compromise

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. ↗

— Ludwig Erhard

#believes #biggest #cake #compromise #dividing

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#compromise #money #need #standards #work

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away. ↗

— Bob Graham

#away #being #compromised #equipment #franks

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate

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

— Larry Wall

#compromise #just #necessary #necessity

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ↗

— George Herbert

#better #compromise #fat #lawsuit #lean