Quotes About Complacency

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

Desconfía de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexión.

It's when people become complacent that this kind of evil sneaks in through the back door, and before long, what you were afraid to look at has now become something so awful you couldn't control it if you wanted to.

I sometimes think about how easy it is for a nation to slip into complacency and ruin after decades of basking in the sun. Since science is the engine of prosperity, nations that turn their backs on science and technology eventually enter a downward spiral.

Ach, messer, moja ?ona, gdybym jÄ… tylko miaÅ', dwadzieÅ›cia razy mogÅ'a zosta? wdowÄ…! Ale, na szcz??cie, messer, nie mam ?ony i, mówiÄ…c szczerze, szcz??liwy jestem, ?e jej nie mam.

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.

We get along fine. In return for food and shelter, they give me unconditional indifference.

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?

Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours

We have our eyes and ears, and we learn more than you suspect. Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours.

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

I just want to be at the best place possible to ensure that I really kick on in my career, that I constantly have challenges, because in football, you don't have long. It's easy to become complacent when game time comes so easily, and you're doing so well.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

she was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.

But it's the millions of pro-choice Americans who are so far uninvolved (and still complacent) that will ultimately decide the fate of legal abortion in this country.

Put simply, hyper-rational executives produce hyper-boring products.

A heavyweight boxing champion who dodges all serious contenders to consistently fight marshmallows is derided and ridiculed—and rightly so. Christians who dodge all serious struggle and consciously seek to put themselves in whatever situations and relationships are easiest are doing the same thing—they are coasting, and eventually that coasting will define them and—even worse—shape them.