Complacent Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I am afraid of being lazy and complacent. I am afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Barbara Hershey
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[2005] There`s still so much more to do. I can`t sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.
Elizabeth Taylor
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I think it`s good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent. Me and Simon worked really hard on the script and we kind of beat ourselves up and we`re very kind of hypercritical, and so it`s good to have pressure. I ...
Edgar Wright
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I`d like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn`t complacent, who do...
Paul Newman
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Well, I think a part of you has to be scared, it keeps you alert; otherwise you become complacent. So absolutely, I`m purposefully going after things and doing things that I`m not sure if it`s going to come off or not. Certainly Full Frontal was one of th...
Steven Soderbergh
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My only rule has been to chop and change. I don`t want to be predictable or typecast - but, more importantly, I don`t want to bore myself or become complacent about what I do.
Natascha McElhone
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You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln`s bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face.
Tom Taylor
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We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.
Alaa Sanakra
Source: brainyquote.com
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We take so much pride (in blocking kicks), I just think last year we got a little complacent,
Andy Gray
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We have to stay on it. We can`t go into a skid like we were. There`s no room for laying back or getting complacent. We have to play this way, and the way we did for two months. We can`t think `we`re back.` We`re playing the way we should.
Andy Cameron
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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
Andrew Beard
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We are facing a public health timebomb and can`t afford to be complacent about waist size.
Ian Campbell
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This is just the first step on a long way. We cannot lean back and be complacent.
Barry Colvin
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of `cowards` perpetuating `senseless acts of violence` is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors ...
Charles Krauthammer
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The thing I`ve seen from the girls in all the matches is the fact that they could get complacent with the scores they`ve had recently. However, each match they`ve gone out there, they`re focused and expecting to win. At the same time, there`s a bigger pic...
Chris Myers
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It`s our job to go out and attack quick, not be complacent. Try to put up points as fast as we can. If that`s throwing the ball, then I say we throw it.
Javon Walker
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It was a little more raw than they had been used to hearing. From our discussion, I gathered there was a feeling the players had become a little complacent. He brought back to them they`ve got to play hard. He brought a lot of competitiveness.
Bob Golic
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It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
Tucker Carlson
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I`ve always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I`m not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.
Deborah Cox
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I try to remember that it can be gone in the blink of an eye, and we never want to become complacent,
Jay DeMarcus
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
Andrew Fastow
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I know as long as I continue to play how I can play that I`ll be OK, ... No one`s ever safe. I know that and it`s not a thing where I`m complacent or relaxed. But if I focus on what I`m doing every game, every play, I`ll be all right.
Anssi Vanjoki
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As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
Dick Wolf
Source: brainyquote.com
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About every 25 years, people get excited and get on the civic bandwagon. Then they get complacent.
Anne Roman
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
Al Hartkopf
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn`t be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Kanye West
