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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

• My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Fear
  • Authenticity
  • Complacency

• the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • High
  • Poet
  • Climbs

• The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

  

  John Landis
  • Guy
  • Black
  • Crazy

• It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Sympathy

• I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Player
  • Air
  • Matter

• Don't be lulled into complacency.

  

  Alan Gerry
  • Complacency