A Quote by Lennox Lewis

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

Lennox Lewis

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Complacency Focus Interruption Needs Off Regain Shake Sometimes Success

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Lennox Lewis
English - Athlete
Born: September 2, 1965

Our president needs to focus on other countries - North Korea, Russia, and everything else that's going on everywhere else. I promote it; I like Donald Trump. I get sometimes what he says, and sometimes he needs to quit on Twitter. He needs to get off of it and focus on what's going on everywhere else instead of what's going on in the NFL.

Jim Kelly

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

Barack Obama

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Brian Tracy

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

Brad Parscale

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Laozi

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

Carrie Mae Weems

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Charles Koch

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

Andy Grove

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Joel Osteen

Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

Jinder Mahal

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

John P. Kotter

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

Benjamin E. Sasse

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.