Top 100 Quotes About Complacency
#1. Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.
Ursula Tillmann
#2. The complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.
Leo Strauss
#3. Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
Ashish Patel
#6. The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Joyce Carol Oates
#7. Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don't see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
#9. Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
Adrienne Rich
#10. Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
#11. Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord
Lionel Shriver
#12. can a man with those dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?" "I
Anton Chekhov
#13. There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
Tony McCoy
#14. Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.
John P. Kotter
#15. The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
Alice James
#16. To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Sarah Ellis
#17. Try as I could - which wasn't very hard - I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't think this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or ambition, or something.
Julian Barnes
#18. I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...
Paule Marshall
#19. Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
Edgard Varese
#20. The enemy of stability can be complacency
Ross Brawn
#21. American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
George Santayana
#22. Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear
Cherrie L. Moraga
#23. The American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.
Rachel Maddow
#24. Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
Rich Mullins
#25. It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
George Eliot
#26. We fight every step of the godsdamned way, every godsdamned moment, for every godsdamned inch. We never give up. We never given in. Complacency is the devil if there was a devil. Which there is not. There's
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#27. Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Alison Jackson
#28. In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.
Robert Reed
#29. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Don Meyer
#30. The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.
James Howard Kunstler
#31. There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
Donella H. Meadows
#32. Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospect; it has to be shattered before ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.
Carl Sagan
#34. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop
#35. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John R.W. Stott
#36. I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#38. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
C.D. Darlington
#39. Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.
Pico Iyer
#41. Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
Carl Deuker
#42. Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds
a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
Albert Camus
#43. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
Henry Petroski
#44. Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.
Joan Rivers
#45. People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
#46. Idleness and complacency lead to mediocrity.
Kim Holden
#47. Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#48. Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
Stanley Hoffmann
#50. Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe.
Malcolm X
#51. Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one's culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
Samuel Mockbee
#52. There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential.
Dionna L. Hayden
#53. Complacency is the prologue to calamity.
C.D. Reiss
#55. Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?
Carl Sagan
#56. Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.
Alain De Botton
#57. Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.
Edward De Bono
#58. My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
John Hawkes
#59. I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.
Farrah Gray
#60. We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan
#61. Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ...
J. Michael Straczynski
#62. When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
Chris Jericho
#63. I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis
#64. Complacency leads to redundancy
Poppet
#65. Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.
Wayde Goodall
#67. Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
Marv Levy
#68. Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.
Jack Nicklaus
#69. Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
Brandi Carlile
#71. The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Baruch Spinoza
#72. It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this ... you are already there.
Carl Henegan
#73. The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.
Malcolm Goodwin
#74. Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.
Lama Surya Das
#75. Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
Mao Zedong
#76. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
H.G.Wells
#77. The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
Francis Chan
#78. History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Hugh Evans
#79. That was the problem with an eight-figure gorilla of a client. It took all of your time and attention. Old clients dried up and died away. New clients were not cultivated. His complacency had come back to bite him right in the ass. He
David Baldacci
#81. A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. What magic there is in a girl's smile! It is the raisin which, dropped in the yeast of male complacency, induces fermentation.
P.G. Wodehouse
#83. Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.
John Fairclough
#84. I agree that complacency hardly engenders an
immortal literature
but neither does
repetition.
Charles Bukowski
#85. A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
Barack Obama
#86. Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
Charles Koch
#87. I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino
#88. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove
#89. I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
Allan Boesak
#90. This is the complacency I have run into.
Bob Higgins
#91. You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
Timothy White
#92. To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#93. Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.
Tom Brown Jr.
#94. There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.
Richard De Crespigny
#95. Complacency is the enemy of study.
Mao Zedong
#96. Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them.
Julian Barnes
#97. In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#99. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.
Garry Kasparov
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