Compromise Quotes

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

George Nolfi
- Work
- Movie
- Feeling
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
- Music
- Band
- Compromise
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Gary Hirshberg
- Business
- Management
- Dies
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

William A. Dembski
- Art
- Design
- Balance
If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

Tim Robbins
- Integrity
- Compromise
I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

Nia Long
- Compromise