David Pratt Quotes

The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

I don't want to be complacent, ever.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

He who does not want does not act.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

You've got to be the first one in the door and last one out.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If you do the job out there on the pitch and you have it under control, as in my case, you want more. You want more responsibility. You want to take care of it all. That is the case with me.

For me, it's always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do - my mom and dad always stressed that to me.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.