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You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide. — Mark Teixeira

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale. — Mark Ruffalo

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic. — David Pratt

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent. — Rashad Evans

I had some downtime with my career and ... I got complacent. — Jake Busey

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent. — Cynthia Nixon

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. — Keri Arthur

Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are. — Israelmore Ayivor

indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys. — Imbolo Mbue

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle. — Julien Smith

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. — Venus Williams

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected. — Bill Maher

I believe that people are too complacent about technology. — Peter Thiel

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. — Lou Holtz

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers

You've always got to have a plan. Keep thinking ahead. Don't ever get complacent. — Lisa Newton

One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs. — Kirsten Beyer

Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today. — Marion Nestle

This is the true test of a man. He who will stand when others grow complacent. — Brandon Sanderson

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent. — Natalie Coughlin

Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art. — Jonathan Lethem

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

Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent. — Chandan Sharma

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent. — Edgar Wright

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical. — Harold Laski

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. — David Remnick

Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart! — Balroop Singh

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent. — Tommy Hilfiger

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding. — Sanjo Jendayi

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

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent! — Gwyneth Paltrow

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance! — Eleanor Roosevelt

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in. — Mika.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly. — Blake Griffin

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent. — Barack Obama

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. — Barbara Hershey

For me, I like to push myself ... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning. — Derek Hough

Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van. — Brock Clarke

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent. — Michael Bergdahl

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. — Nancy Pearcey

I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check. — Krista Ritchie

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. — Shelley Morrison

But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors. — Olaf Stapledon

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. — Betty Eadie

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent. — Katrina Kaif

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

An eager student is better than a complacent master. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't let criticism be the dam that turns your raging river of enthusiasm into a complacent lake of indifference~ — M. Craig

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. — Sonia Rumzi

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies. — Catherine Stock

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation. — Dalai Lama

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti

What, warder, ho! the man that can blow so complacent a blast as that, probably blows it from a castle. — Mark Twain

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had. — Jason Derulo

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies. — Nate Parker

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from. — Bear Grylls

Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency. — Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Even if you give a woman the world, don't be complacent; someone may come along and give her the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. — Tucker Carlson

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent. — Bobby Rahal

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'. — Erol Alkan

Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. — Israelmore Ayivor

You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent ... - Yossarian — Joseph Heller

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser. — Darryl Sutter

I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives. — Daniel Willey

I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage. — Ameesha Patel

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent. — Viswanathan Anand

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it. — Gary Holland

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent. — Lauryn Hill

She was extravagant with her pity, and complacent in her snug world. — Harper Lee

Why is the American black man so complacent about being trampled upon? Why doesn't the American black man fight to be a human being? — Malcolm X

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

I don't ever want to feel complacent. — Taraji P. Henson

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously. — Nicola Sturgeon

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? — Jodi Picoult

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

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. — Israelmore Ayivor

I also learned that the world is a bad place not because there's more bad people than good. It's because the good are complacent. — Dan Skinner

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference. — Katie Couric

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent. — Thomas A. Edison

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily. — Jim George

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. — Dick Wolf

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. — Augustine Of Hippo

I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels. — Chris Jericho

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is. — Tim O'Reilly

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent. — Peter Mayle

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms. — Colin Powell

Don't be discouraged or complacent; keep reading it, keep sharing it because it's God's page opened in your life! — Israelmore Ayivor