Quotes About Complacence

#1. CEOs of large firms often fail to read the handwriting on the wall, because of complacence, inertia, or overconfidence.

Navi Radjou

#2. I am no longer tied to the cliffs
Threats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence

Balroop Singh

#3. The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

Deborah Hopkinson

#4. Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Margaret Halsey

#5. [Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.

Pedro Meyer

#6. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Joseph Addison

#7. As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Never mistake complacence for the illusion of control. She is like wildfire, at once utterly beguiling and wholly untameable.

Lisa Mantchev

#10. Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Why, they are so sure of themselves that they do not even hurry. They move slowly, phlegmatically; they speak of necessary centuries. They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Must a people disappear for us to know they exist?
Mano Dayak

Mano Dayak

#13. West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Julien Smith

#15. I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

Sydney Pollack

#16. The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Robert M. Gates

#17. He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed.

Megan Shepherd

#18. Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

Elizabeth Chandler

#19. Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.

Alan W. Watts

#20. The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Sid Caesar

#21. Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

Chris Rock

#22. Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it's certainly at the core of most people's wealth. In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.

Donald Trump

#23. In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

Jim Ryun

#24. Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.

Dov Davidoff

#25. Critics make pipi on music and think they help it grow.

Andre Gedalge

#26. Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Tana French

#27. Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second.

Francine Prose

#28. Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. social Left is a minority, too, and it is a minority aspiring to dominate our institutions at a time when those institutions are particularly weak and diffuse.

Yuval Levin

#30. I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

Daniel Willey