Quotes About Complacency

I have known far too many university graduates, in this country and in my own, who, as soon as they have received the diploma which declares them to be of Certified Intelligence, put their brains in cold storage and never use them again until they are hauled away to the mortuary.

The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in livability polls, as if we did a lot to deserve it.

Nothing fails like success, because the higher you rise, the easier it becomes to stop pushing the envelope, challenging the status quo, and keeping your focus

the growing materialism of our societies. This materialism informs political discourse at every level, making wealth and its distribution the only issue that is discussed for long. As a result, people think of conservatism merely as a form of complacency towards the current system of material rewards, which has nothing whatever to say about the things that 'money can't buy', or about the effect of the consumer society on our deeper values. Yet

Hence for a long time now it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in the sphere of high art which is not in some way a 'challenge' to the complacencies of our public culture. Art must give offence, stepping out of the future fully armed against the bourgeois taste for the conforming and the comfortable, which are simply other names for kitsch and cliché. But the result of this is that offence becomes a cliché.

Laziness and complacency.

the complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

She would live every day fully. She was not the same girl she'd been nearly a year ago. She would never see things so blithely again. Even now, as Evie watched the parade and the people alight with pride and joy, she knew how easily that same crowd could become angry. The things that divided them. The things that brought them together, too. They couldn't afford to become complacent.

People will believe anything it it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

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.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.