Quotes About Complacency

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

the cycles of risk taking in the economy as following a pattern: stability and absence of crises encourage risk taking, complacency, and lowered awareness of the possibility of problems. Then

I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.

There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem... The crack in my life was the fact that I had everything I wanted, or could ever want—and when you have it all, boredom grows like a fungus, coating everything you own and everything you feel.

Most people, however, didn't take a position either way. They just wanted to disappear into the pleasantries of their lives. As long as when bad thing happened, they happened somewhere else, to someone they didn't know, it was not their problem.

She assumed she would go to college, get a degree in something pleasant, then settle into a comfortable job, meet a comfortable guy, and have a nice, unremarkable life. It's not that she longed for such an existence, but it was expected. Not just of her, but of everyone. With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance.

No one rages against the system anymore. At most, they just glare at it a bit.

I agree that complacency hardly engenders an immortal literature but neither does repetition.

The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.

when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

With Chinelo, I learned that parents must not assume that all they had to do for books was to find the smartest department store and pick up the most attractive-looking book in stock. Our complacency was well and truly rebuked by the poison we now saw wrapped and taken home to our little girl. I learned that if I wanted a safe book for my child I should at least read it through and at best write it myself.

By all accounts this evening promised to be yet another in the long progression of dog days that oozed like a piece of soft, runny brie with a hunk of moldy French bread and washed down with a mug of room-temperature Clamato.

We have become used to the missiles being among us. We don't think about what they can do.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

What frustrates me more than anything is that I push on so far and people become complacent, lose that bit of edge, and it's very difficult to keep driving people on. That's probably the greatest fault of mine: I expect everybody to be like me.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

Man-made light was once a thing that was too precious to use. Now it is too cheap to notice.

It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into a revolution. It happens most often that a people, which has supported without complaint, as if they were not felt, the most oppressive laws, violently throws them off as soon as their weight is lightened

the terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a miserable set-up, as satirized brilliantly in the UK sitcom The Office.

It seems no body's business to try to better things

I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.

It is dullness and not evil that begets totalitarianism.