#compromise

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#compromise #democratic #messy #politics #transitions

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. ↗

— Colin Powell

#digital #digital world #experience #find #listen

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#been #chair #cold #compromise #do the right thing

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#best #cheapest #compromise #lawyer

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul. ↗

— Joan Jett

#depends #felt #guess #i #just

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#politics #art

The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything. ↗

— Nathaniel Philbrick

#compromise #neighbors #working-together #courage

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue. ↗

— David Pietrusza

#leadership #perspective #vision #leadership

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #self #soul #life

I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#regret #suicide #life