Quotes About Complacency

then the cycle would repeat: faith for a generation, then complacency, soon followed by adultery as the people chased after false gods.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.

Oprez je staza osrednjosti. Ljigava, bestrasna osrednjost je sve što ve?ina ljudi vjeruje da im je dostupno.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

looked for signs of slackness and especially for areas of responsibility that were running too smoothly. The Senior Watchdog had her own watchwords: "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

La cautela es el camino de la mediocridad. Una mediocridad que fluye sin pasiones es el máximo que la mayoría de la gente cree ser capaz de alcanzar".

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

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.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

These manipulations are not evidence that evil is a result of religious beliefs. Instead, they show how evil men usurp the authority of religion to promote war. That this tactic can succeed reflects that too much complacency among people is preventing resistance against the thugs who coopt religion and use it for evil ends.

So many aspects of the Jazz Age recall our own: political corruption and complacency; fear of outsiders; life-changing technologies; cults of youth, excess, consumerism and celebrity; profit as a new religion on the one hand and the easy availability of credit on the other; astonishing affluence and yet a huge section of society unable to move out of poverty.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ignorance was a comfortable nest to linger in, in the right sort of circumstances.

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

The dream is over only when you have become complacent.

Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.