I think it's important that we run that tension between…

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important…

— Jonathan Nolan

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those…

— George Leonard

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all…

— Gilberto Gil

Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain…

— Mo Ibrahim

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the…

— David Remnick

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable,…

— Martin Filler

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

— Viswanathan Anand

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.

— Dimple Kapadia

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then…

— Sonam Kapoor

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

— Blake Griffin

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history,…

— Thabo Mbeki

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent…

— Jeffrey Lang

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

— Tracy Lawrence