The Art Of Compromise Quotes

#1. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Howard Raiffa

#2. She was also not a woman who would be told what to do, not like Jessie, who knew the art of compromise (though, it should be said, Jessie knew it existed, she didn't utilize it much).

Kristen Ashley

#3. [A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

Dick Gregory

#4. Legislation is the art of compromise.

Harry Reid

#5. There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

John Connolly

#6. Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.

Waite Phillips

#7. In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Sarah Jessica Parker

#8. All I want to do is give the world my heart ... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Erykah Badu

#9. You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Mike Davidson

#10. Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Pauline Kael

#11. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Nipsey Hussle

#12. 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

#13. Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Christian Bale

#14. The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enid Bagnold

#15. It's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Greta Garbo

#16. Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Brad Holland

#17. The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

Mark Zero

#18. I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Erykah Badu

#19. The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

T Bone Burnett

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

Ludwig Erhard

#21. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

Erykah Badu

#22. In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Roger Corman