David Gauke Quotes

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

I will always need to compromise and make choices - you just have to work hard at making the right choice day by day.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.

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.'