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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. Benjamin E. Mays

Life, Failure, Doing, Tragedy, Living

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove

Success, Failure, Survive, Only, Breeds

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from. Elijah Wood

Good, Safety, Place, Comfort, Never

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. John P. Kotter

Fear, Anxiety, Urgency, Panic, Higher

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. Shari Redstone

Death, Kiss, Say, Always

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms. Glenn Greenwald

Challenge, People, Me, Law, Grow, Desire

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. Hugh Evans

History, Simple, People, Action, Think

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka

Vanity, First, Breath, Always, Fresh

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. Trent Reznor

Myself, Enemy, Uncomfortable, Try, Put

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency. Ben Shapiro

Choices, Wealth, Rebel, Never, Way, Two

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old. Marv Levy

Change, Experience, Long, You, Become

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency. John Mackey

Competition, Out, Forces, Get, Companies

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. Tony McCoy

Racing, Arrogance, Place, You, Up, Your

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. Paul Ryan

Safety, People, Want, Turn, Hammock, Net

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets. Urjit Patel

Financial, Important, Room, Little

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. Wynton Marsalis

Eyes, Democracy, Generation, Corruption

The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it. Alexis Ohanian

People, Thinking, Internet, Want, See

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. Nick Cave

Work, Great, Work Hard, Look, You, Years

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. Pat Riley

Great, Team, Search, New, Defeat, Will

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov

Mind, Only, Being, Before, Retrospective

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. James Howard Kunstler

Rain, Environment, Living, Growing, May

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. Jimmy Carter

Hate, See, Prevail, Christ, Our Lives

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. Timothy White

You, Kind, Need, Because, Familiarity

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Aesop

Character, Truth, Great, Values, You, Up

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable. Rick Tumlinson

Fear, Day, World, Face, Laziness, Accept

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history. Ruth Negga

History, Think, Back, Know, Understand

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