Quotes About Complacency

It's easy to become complacent when you are earning decent money as a young player. It's important to understand that there is a lot to achieve, and there is a long way to go before you are where you actually want to be.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.

The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

Isn't the dull pain of the centrists conformity delicious, edgelord?

Nella vita non bisogna mai rassegnarsi, arrendersi alla mediocrità, bensì uscire da quella "zona grigia" in cui tutto è abitudine e rassegnazione passiva, bisogna coltivare il coraggio di ribellarsi

Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!

Your eye is on the future, not the past. Often such creative readjustments lead to a superior path for us—we are shaken out of our complacency and forced to reassess where we are headed.

People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands that it be that way. There's no villain, no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

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.

The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well sort of way.

most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.

My fellow academics, taken as a group, are just as reluctant to engage in genuine reflection as the less highly educated person in the street. Academics have always been afflicted by unusually high levels of conformity to expectations: one of the chief ways you prove yourself worthy of an academic life is by getting very good grades, and you don't get very good grades without saying the sorts of things that your professors like to hear.*6

Complacency serves the old gods.

Ravnodušnost je, a ne mržnja, kraj svake ljubavi. Mržnja može da se ugasi i smeni obnovljenom ljubavlju, ?ak i ja?om no pre mržnje; ravnodušnost ni?im ne može da se izmeni. Ona je psihološka osnova svakog nemorala me?u ljudima i svake njihove surovosti.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

You do nothing, it becomes approval.

supine neglect

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof and went into a coma. She came out of it, though. Everyone was so happy. -Is that true? asked James. -No, said Grieve. But they would have been happy. Everyone thinks she's so clever. And I would be happy if she went away and never came back.