Alan Gerry Quotes

Don't be lulled into complacency.

Alan Gerry

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Money
  • Complacency

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Mind

• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life

• 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
  • Complacency

• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Real
  • Leaving
  • Complacency

• You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Hurt

• I'm not made to be a mother.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Mother

• I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Believe
  • History

• Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Science

• I'm completely hooked on polo.

  

  Mike Rutherford Mike and the Mechanics

• Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

  

  Princess Diana

• At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.

  

  Sascha Ring
  • Good
  • Home
  • Song

• I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Complacency

• The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Action

• We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Desire
  • Break
  • Lovers

• That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Sleep
  • Smell
  • Ducks

• With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Evil

• His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

  

  John Philpot Curran
  • Smile

• Don't be lulled into complacency.

  

  Alan Gerry
  • Complacency