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Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.
I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
We must take every game as serious as we can, no complacency, that's the main thing.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win.
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
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.
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.