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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

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

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.


C.S. Lewis


#mistakes

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.


David Cone


#ashamed #blast #compromised #did #done

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.


Ron Fournier


#compromise #dirty #washington #word

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.


Lawrence Durrell


#artists #compromise #daily #daily life #defeated

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.


Margaret Thatcher


#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #just

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.


Robert Toombs


#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy


Phyllis McGinley


#ignorance #knowledge #marriage #wisdom #life

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.


Hedy Lamarr


#compromise #magic #me #philosophical #tolerance






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