Quotes About Complacency

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Dora watched him for a while, nervously, and then returned to scanning the whole group. Seeing them all together like that she felt excluded and aggressive, and Noel's exhortations came back to her. They had a secure complacent look about them: the spiritual ruling class; and she wished suddenly that she might grow as large and fierce as a gorilla and shake the flimsy doors off their hinges, drowning the repulsive music in a savage carnivorous yell.

Settle down! she thought. Yes, settle down into dreariness and quietness and forgetfulness and boredom.

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

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.

People want you to be ordinary.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

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.

His mother claims she didn't know anything about the racist terror going on in Mississippi and Alabama; she was caught up in joining a sorority, not knowing what was going on in the rest of the world. Or around the corner.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; you eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness. I had to force myself to look harder and try to see beyond the concept of library that was so latent in my brain.

People had short memories. They needed to navigate the rubble, peel off the grubby ration coupons, and witness the Hunger Games to keep the war fresh in their minds. Forgetting could lead to complacency, and then they'd all be back at square one.

They needed to navigate the rubble, peel off the grubby ration coupons, and witness the Hunger Games to keep the war fresh in their minds. Forgetting could lead to complacency, and then they'd all be back at square one.