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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
I have seen throughout my professional career that the robust exchange of ideas and bipartisan compromises can bring about the best policy results.
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.
The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.
I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.
The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.
With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.
Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive. It wears me down.
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.
When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.
Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.
I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.
Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.
Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?
An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.
I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.
I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.
All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.
