Conrad Burns Quotes

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

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's difficult when you want it all.

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

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

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.'

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

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

We have not fully pleased anybody and that's a good sign.

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

You have to find a deal where each side can say “we held firm on what matters.”

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no loaf. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a full loaf.

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.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

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

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

A series is filled with compromises.

A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.

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