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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
To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.
— Rashad Evans
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
We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
— Bill Maher
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
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
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
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
You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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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
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
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
If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.
— Catherine Stock
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
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
— Gerald R. Ford
I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind 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
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
Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
— Israelmore Ayivor
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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
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
— Thomas A. Edison
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
