Quotes About Complacency

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

He had, in fact, already begun to sink into that creeping dry rot of pedagogy which is the worst and ultimate pitfall of the profession; giving the same lessons year after year had formed a groove into which the other affairs of his life adjusted themselves with insidious ease. He worked well; he was conscientious; he was a fixture that gave service, satisfaction, confidence, everything except inspiration.

You need to understand that life's not fair. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. You're like all the other Americans I know. Spoiled. Spoiled and entitled. It's infuriating. You have never known hardship, so you whine about anything that happens.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

As soon as you get complacent with where you are in a game, that's where you come and then it bites you in the rear. So you just want to make sure that you're keeping that energy high, when guys are making plays you're getting excited for them and you're staying locked in through all 60 minutes of the game.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

Clients didn't value what they got for free. It was human nature to devalue what came too cheap or easy.

Laziness always wins.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Vanity, complacency, and indolence were a curse, since bravery was an ascending slope and one could not rest on it. One must succeed in rising to every challenge except the ones that would destroy us needlessly.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.

Grove's mantra was "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Noyce and Moore may not have been paranoid, but they were never complacent.

El éxito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico.