Quotes About Complacency

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done.

The problem begins when this good enough attitude spills beyond our marketplace choices and into the things we say and do.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

If a man can eat his fill and have a willing bedmate in the same place every night, he quickly grows lazy.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

what recently nurtured the tyranny was nothing other than our inaction … Weakened by the pleasure of peace we learned to live like slaves

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity; a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.