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Don't be lulled into complacency.
Alan Gerry
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Alan Gerry
American
Businessman
Born:
Dec 24
,
1929
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Lulled
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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
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Too Much
Living
Complacency
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Above
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Tragedy
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Complacency
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Only
Shattered
Retrospective
Exists
Being
Ascertained
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley
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Will
Defeat
Complacency
Intricate
Constantly
More
Through
New
Great Team
Loses
Explain
Explanations
Team
Search
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Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.
Elijah Wood
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Safety
Complacency
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Never
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter
Prevail
Hate
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Complacency
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Our Lives
See
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Contrary
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Lives
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
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Leads
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Repeating
Referring
Keep
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
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People
Simple
Whatever
Action
Think
Complacency
Everyday
Our
Strikes
Montgomery
Scale
Wearing
Rely
Songs
Force
Protest
Boycott
Flags
Movements
Bus
Shows
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Symbolic
Symbols
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
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Fear
Complacency
Panic
State
Virtually
Rate
Absent
Higher
Imply
Does
Which
Urgency
Means
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan
People
Safety
Complacency
Net
Safety Net
Hammock
Dependence
Want
Turn
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
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Complacency
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Outburst
Vanity
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Always
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