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Tag Name "Complacent" (94)

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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
Joan Jett
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.
Barack Obama
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I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.
Adrian Grenier
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The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.
John F. Kennedy
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I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.
Mark Ruffalo
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
Patrice Leconte
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The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.
Pope Francis
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A wise man knows learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
Bear Grylls
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Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
Mika
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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
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Abraham Flexner
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I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make sure we don't get complacent or comfortable, and always trying to push the limit on trying to write great songs. At the end of the day it's why we do what we do.
Michael W. Smith
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Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
Harold Laski
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The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
Martin Filler
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If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.
Taraji P. Henson
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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
Mark Twain
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When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.
Stephen Crane
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Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.
Misty Copeland
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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
Saint Augustine
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
Darryl Sutter
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[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.
Katie Couric
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