David Sylvian Quotes

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. 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. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

I could sit down and talk with the devil if necessary.

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

I am willing to do business and I'm willing to play ball with anyone, for I am very open-minded.

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.