Compromise

I recently listened to Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR and her guest Geoff Nunberg spoke about compromise. And a phrase he turned caught my ear. He quoted Avishai Margalit a Philosopher and Author who said, “Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like
to be. But compromises tell us who we are. ”
In these times of brinksmanship in the Washington, and often in business, I am struck by how we say a whole lot about …