Quotes About Complacency

Convinced that there is little they can do, they do little.

Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

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One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs.

Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career, you must continually improve your skills, especially the art of communication.

It's amazing—once a problem improves, people often stop doing what caused it to improve. Once you feel better, you stop taking your medicine.

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

L'alcool tue lentement. On s'en fout. On n'est pas pressés.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

What do you mean SOS?" "Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.

It is dangerous to sit on your laurels, but a lot of the time you only have to add one or two people to the fringes of a winning team to improve it.

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

He had come to shock the people out of their complacency. This was evident in his every word. There were no sacred sheep in his flock.