Quotes About Complacency

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Awkwardness is a warning against complacency. A connection with the incomprehensible achieved only through immersion in contemporary life, a moment of awareness of the gap between your perception and understanding. It is the urbane corollary to the antique sublime: the social vista that slaps you in the face with the breadth of what you still don't understand.

I think one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

One has to forgive. Not everybody was at fault. Think of Yaya and her family, who saved us. They taught me tolerance. I think one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. There

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.

Achievement will continue at the same or a greater level only if you do not permit the infection of success to take hold of you and your organization. The symptom of that infection is called complacency. Contentment with past accomplishments or acceptance of the status quo can derail an organization quickly. In sports or business, getting to the top is difficult. One of the reasons staying there is so rare is because the infection sets in.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure

Sitting in your towel for ages because you're too lazy to get dressed.

Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world-- the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley-- ...I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially because now it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What's Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one.

Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world - the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley [...] I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially now because it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one.

Orwell's vision of our terrible future [...] - the world in which books are banned. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read them'.

En el mundo en que vivimos, con sus luces y sus sombras, afirmar que uno se realiza con el don sincero de sí —siguiendo las huellas de Jesús— significa ciertamente ir a contracorriente. Son muchas las voces que se alzan con una propuesta contraria: "Piensa en ti mismo, no te compliques la vida, vive para ti". Pareciera que el darse a los demás nos quitase la libertad de hacer lo que nos da la gana.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

The 'do nothing everything will be all right' default plan is determined by the IRS and government.