Quotes About Complacency

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Perseverance is for people with belief in their own ability, complacency is one arrogant step ahead.... for people with no clue of others' ability.

Indeed, automation does not fail often, which limits people's ability to practice the kinds of breakdown scenarios that still justifies their marginal presence in the system. Here, the human is painted as a passive monitor, whose greatest safety risks would lie in deskilling, complacency, vigilance decrements and the inability to intervene in deteriorating circumstances.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing

Humans who believe they have outrun their undead pursuers might do well to remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, adding, of course, that in this instance the hare stands a good chance of being eaten alive.

No wonder there is no wonder. We've figured it all out.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

The thing about a 'comfort zone' is that it sounds, well, just too comfortable – and when you are too comfortable you lose your edge. That's why I call it a comfort pit, because a pit is somewhere you want to get out of as fast as possible.

I want to finish my race in the Promised Land, not in the wilderness. You too? Then we have to cash in our fear and complacency and spend all we have on the only ticket out: BELIEF. Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference.

Often couples or close friends, even entire families, will enter into tacit compacts whereby each individual pledges (unconsciously) to remain mired in the same slough in which she and all her cronies have become so comfortable.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

Wherever people feel safe—this was her bitter, self-accusing point—they will be indifferent.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

La actual crisis financiera y económica internacional debería enseñar a Occidente a evitar la autocomplacencia y desconfiar de su propio materialismo.

We became complacent; we became the managers of the status quo, not the change makers, and we've got to renew the center.

Challenge is important: It keeps you from becoming complacent and doing what is easiest—rather than what is best. The masses go down the wide road of 'easy,' while the few struggle along the path to true wealth. This is partly why, when challenges come, you'll often feel very alone. Everyone else gives up and runs back to that wide, easy road

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have the leisure to be bored, but not to grow tired of something. Most people can't distinguish between the two.

I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a fucking thing, and then they moan about it.

If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.