Quotes About Complacency

Good is the enemy of great... We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good-and that is their main problem.

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

I guess its when being comfortable gets confused with settling for what's easy...

Self-complacency leads to self-righteousness. Let us realize that we are all sinners, and ask God for forgiveness.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

People get complacent in relationships and stop working together. When there is distance in a relationship you essentially leave yourself open to mishaps. Stay awake and never get so comfortable that you give up your Voice.

A spare tyre is something that you don't check until you have a punctured one.

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom. They had no idea how harsh the rest of the world was.

False doctrines and religions, whether outside or inside of the church, alarm the true people of God, awake them from their spiritual slumber and complacency, incite them to pursue holiness, and compel them to define the biblical doctrines and refine their theological formulations.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

What is a liberal-democratic philistine? An empty gut, filled with cowardice.

A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn't understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

As long as it's not me, I'll be cool.

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization.

Los monstruos existen pero son demasiado pocos para ser realmente peligroso; más peligrosos son los hombres comunes, los funcionarios dispuestos a creer y obedecer sin discutir...