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Complacency Quotes
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Benjamin E. Mays
Life
,
Failure
,
Doing
,
Tragedy
,
Living
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove
Success
,
Failure
,
Survive
,
Only
,
Breeds
Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.
Elijah Wood
Good
,
Safety
,
Place
,
Comfort
,
Never
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
John P. Kotter
Fear
,
Anxiety
,
Urgency
,
Panic
,
Absent
I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.
Shari Redstone
Kiss
,
Death
,
Say
,
Always
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
J. Cole
Money
,
World
,
Feel
,
You
,
Rapper
,
Matters
We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.
Rick Tumlinson
Fear
,
Day
,
Face
,
World
,
Laziness
,
Accept
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
History
,
Simple
,
People
,
Action
,
Think
I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
Trent Reznor
Myself
,
Uncomfortable
,
Enemy
,
Try
,
Put
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom
Innovation
,
Government
,
You
,
Will
,
Tell
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
Timothy White
You
,
Kind
,
Need
,
Familiarity
,
Because
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley
Great
,
Team
,
Search
,
Defeat
,
New
,
Will
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter
Hate
,
See
,
Prevail
,
Christ
,
Teaching
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.
Glenn Greenwald
Challenge
,
People
,
Me
,
Law
,
Grow
,
Desire
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Diane Ravitch
Education
,
Hope
,
American
,
Obstacle
,
Who
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Nick Cave
Work
,
Great
,
Work Hard
,
You
,
Look
,
Hard
The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
Ted Yoho
China
,
United States
,
Hold
,
Rewarding
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
Technology
,
Wind
,
Control
,
Down
,
Play
The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
Baba Kalyani
Technology
,
Innovation
,
Design
,
Product
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
Great
,
Character
,
Truth
,
You
,
Values
,
Up
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan
People
,
Safety
,
Want
,
Turn
,
Net
,
Hammock
I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
Taj Mahal
Fall
,
Want
,
Trap
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
,
Only
,
Being
,
Shattered
,
Before
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
Rain
,
Environment
,
Global Warming
,
May
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
Ben Shapiro
Choices
,
Rebel
,
Wealth
,
Way
,
Two
,
Never
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
Vanity
,
Fresh
,
Always
,
First
,
Breath
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