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Tag Name "Complacency" (161)

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To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.
Dorothee Solle
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I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.
Farrah Gray
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The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.
Malcolm Goodwin
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.
Zicheng Hong
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The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.
Carl Sagan
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Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
Carl Deuker
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Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work work and be disciplined.
Raoul Peck
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A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
Barack Obama
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Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.
Jeremy Gutsche
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
Bonnie Hammer
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I think post-racial is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
Allan Boesak
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Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.
Bobby McFerrin
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To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Bill Walsh
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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
Rick Warren
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Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.
John Fairclough
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The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the victim mode . . . .
Kofi Annan
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Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
David Myers
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
Erica Jong
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Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard prosperity tends to promote complacency.
Max Anders
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This is the complacency I have run into.
Bob Higgins
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Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
Lennox Lewis
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
Thomas Mann
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