Familiarity tends to breed complacency.
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Familiarity breeds complacency.
RICK WARREN Familiarity breed contempt.
AESOP Familiarity seems to breed contempt
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING Familiarity used to breed contempt ..... now it just breeds
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds...
YUDHANJAYA WIJERATNE You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
PAUL LAZARSFELD Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
WILLIAM HAZLITT I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.
ERIC MCCORMACK Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT ...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experi...
MOXIE MEZCAL Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed com...
GAVIN NEWSOM Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
J. WILLIAM GALBRAITH Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
VIKRANT PARSAI ...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
NICHOLAS SPARKS We've always done it this way" is invalid when that way hasn't led to more life, greater growth, or ...
AARON W. MATTHEWS Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
ANDY GROVE If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.
ABHIJIT NASKAR unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
OUIDA Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
MARK TWAIN Familiarity breeds attempt.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Familiarity breeds attempt
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
MARK TWAIN Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
ANTOINE RIVAROL When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
JOSEPH ADDISON Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds
ANTOINE RIVAROL Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is becau...
MARK TWAIN Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Familiarity causes diminishing of potentials.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a matter of familiarity. Working together, catchers get to know what pitchers like to throw in ...
BRYAN PRICE There's no question that since (the Bears) have grown up with (the Trojans), ... There's a lot of fa...
JEFF TEDFORD This year has been far less turnover and it's been smoother. More familiarity. ... Last year we put ...
IAIN BYRNE The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
BONNIE HAMMER Just because many great men before us have provided us with many great works and world influences do...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Don't be lulled into complacency.
ALAN GERRY Complacency may often result from being surrounded by a team of flatterers and false people around. ...
APURVA GAGLANI It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually...Beware of the danger of relaxation spiritually.
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GEORGE ORWELL Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN Familiarity breeds contempt.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Familiarity breeds contempt.
AESOP Familiarity breeds liking.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Are you OK, Christopher?
CHRIS WILLIAMS Christopher Reeve: Courageous Steps.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE Complacency is our worst enemy.
MIKE APICELLO Comfort yields complacency. Break free.
A.D. POSEY with confidence, but not complacency.
LAURENT FABIUS (Zuccarelli) suggested that Thaddeus Jones withdraw his name from the ballot. ... (Jones) agreed to ...
BOB STORMAN Complacency is the enemy of progress.
JIM GENOVESE Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency
V.S. PARANI I think complacency is what you allow it to be.
DRAYMOND GREEN Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
GEORGE SAND Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
MARK TWAIN In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
WILLIAM BERNBACH Familiarity breeds contempt - and children
MARK TWAIN Admiration and familiarity are strangers
GEORGE SAND Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
AMANDA CRAIG Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
MARK TWAIN Fast bowlers are a breed apart, and Fred Trueman was apart from the breed.
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DAVE SHERROD Majority of the time we are dealing with commonness and familiarity. The normality of these aspects ...
JONATHAN CHEN I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic wo...
WYNDHAM LEWIS There is a familiarity, in terms of schemes and philosophy,
BRIAN KELLY With Glenn and me, it gives the people of Tucson some familiarity in terms of names and faces.
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GRANT WEAVER In popular culture, familiarity or cuddliness is important.
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MARK SCHULTZ There's a familiarity there. Taming of the Shrew is one of the top three Shakespearean plays in term...
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GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was aliv...
GANDHI Those that breed gratitude also breed abundance,but ingratitude is the mother of abundant lack.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
CHAKA KHAN Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
JOCELYN MURRAY advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
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PAT CONROY This is the complacency I have run into.
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G. K. CHESTERTON Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
A.A. MILNE I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON