Quotes About Complacency

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name." "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

There were whole habitats where people had had their higher brain functions disengaged, so that they could live like sheep under the care of machines

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

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

Lo que sucede es esto: un estado infantil de frustración continua, un anhelar algo y sentirme culpable del anhelo, un deseo de amor pero también una oscura complacencia de no ser amada.

I always felt that the trick was to celebrate our triumphs without for a moment losing the edge and depth of desire that had taken us there. I just wanted to be on my guard that victories weren't seen as auto matic guarantees of future success, and that celebrations did not sow the seeds of complacency.

En el momento en el que la autocomplacencia se instala, las cosas empiezan a ir mal y casi siempre conduce a la perdición.

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.

Left to their own devices, the Tories will squash the life out of what Brexit really represents in terms of the chance to shake up political life and overturn a complacent status quo. We cannot let that happen.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.