Best 172 quotes in «complacency quotes» category

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

To move forward, one need only take the first step,

Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness.

We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach

We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.

We don’t have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: "I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!"' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown!

We've always done it this way" is invalid when that way hasn't led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take that how you will...business, personally, church, or family. Complacency is too easy to breed, and already has one foot in the grave.

What really bugs Henry about Barry, he supposes, is Barry’s complacency. His inner assurance that there is no need to change his self-destructive behavior, let alone search for its roots.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

When pride gets in the way, who you think you are doesn’t allow you to be who you need to be.

Your previous accomplishments should be your stepping stones; you need them to jump up. They should not become beds that should keep you comfortably sleeping.

Your reluctance to grow may be feeding your illusion of safety, but truth is, it's a big sign of cowardice. You're actually rejecting a HUGE OPPORTUNITY to learn how to meet the deeper needs of others.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

We feel the ground slipping from beneath our feet, and we want to hold on and stay in control. And so we organize and define (that is, put limits around) what first moved freely within us, flowed out of us, and motivated our action. We also dismiss, with varying degrees of harshness, what does not fit into the pattern we so painstakingly created for our God experience.

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword, because there's the danger of becoming complacent, becoming too happy with that nothing, because you've never known anything better. Complacency is the death of dreams, and freedom.

With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But Sylvia wasn't baited by those pretty tales of line and hook: the bride-white cake, the prime rib and steak, marriage- that bleak fable- with Husband cast as warden, the future dead clear and blighted.

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!

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

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains - and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

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

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

Hate is only conquered by love.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.