Quotes About Complacency

Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it," when he added that those words are, in Powell's perspective, "a slogan for the complacent, the arrogant, or the scared." How can such a commonsense maxim be so insidious and disastrous? It's because of an immutable law of business: By the time you figure out it's broke, it's been broke for a very long time.

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Qué fácil es seducir a cualquiera o ser seducido', pensé, 'con qué poco nos conformamos'

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.

That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.

Newland never seems to look ahead, Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.