His influence, should others wish to follow, might encourage the path of no compromise, allowing oneself to mature as artist, and trusting the resulting work will find an appreciative audience.
Of course I am the FIRST person to tell you that marriage is just about the hardest job you will take on in your life; living day in and day out with someone else is a series of compromises, and restraining oneself from breaking a series of vases over the other's head.
That she succeeded in pursuing a successful scientific career without ever having to join the Communist party as an adult reveals, it is said, a rare ability to keep a low profile, make oneself unthreatening, negotiate awkward compromises.
By doing so again he succeeds in overcoming The Innocent's inherent slightness, creating a believable mental landscape of the compromises necessary to live, and live with oneself, under political repression; not so different from anywhere else, as it turns out, given humanity's capacity for self-enslavement.
This behavior appears produced by the attempt to strike a compromise between self-image and payoffs, so as to release oneself of one's responsibility for selfish behavior.
Even having negative thoughts about oneself is a form of violence, as these types of thoughts can compromise our sense of self-worth and lead to unwanted emotions.
Without the Church, Jesus's teachings would have been forgotten, but to achieve institutional status, the Church has to doctor the evidence and daily compromise his revolutionary message of renouncing wealth and putting unconditional love (of one's neighbour as oneself; of one's enemy; and as its own reward) at the heart of the spiritual life.
It also represents the outer edge of one of the strands of support for Corbyn that may yet prove to be its downfall: the politics of puritanism, whereby no compromise can ever be brooked, and to even question the leader's bona fides is to ally oneself with "Blairites", "warmongers", and worse.
Many philosophers treat the interpersonal dimension of recognition self-respect objectively, and it is generally thought that having manifestly inaccurate beliefs about oneself is good grounds for at least calling an individual's sense of worth unjustified or compromised (Meyers 1989).
Religion means understanding oneself.
