Quotes About Complacency

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

I was always winning, winning, winning. I took winning for granted.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I'm very secure with my career. I had a great time. Now it's time to sit back like Al Bundy and talk about past glories.

What is familiar and well known as such is not really known for the very reason that it is familiar and well known.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

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.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomplished. I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.

The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.

We next to never know when we are well off: but this cuts two ways,--for if we did, we should perhaps know better when we are ill off also; and I have sometimes thought that there are as many ignorant of the one as of the other.

It is the novelist's duty to attack society, for its false complacency, for its repressive rigidity, and for its self-righteous insensitivity. Society is women. Therefore, the novelist must attack and punish women in his works.

With every word it seemed to Mary that her hopes were crashing around her ears. She had secretly believed that she was living in a dream world but having her dreams shattered so suddenly by a cruel complacency was like the twisting of a knife in her too vulnerable heart.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium.

The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.