Zainab Salbi Quotes

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

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.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

… the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

In everything the middle road is best.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.