Complacency Quotes

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. Benjamin E. Mays
Life Failure Too Much Living Complacency Too Our Ability Above Rather Doing Tragedy Often Little Capacities Much Below
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov
Mind Before Complacency State Only Shattered Retrospective Exists Being Ascertained
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. Pat Riley
Great Will Defeat Complacency Intricate Constantly More Through New Great Team Loses Explain Explanations Team Search Away
Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from. Elijah Wood
Good Safety Complacency Good Place Never Comfort Place Working
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. Jimmy Carter
Prevail Hate Christ Complacency Our Our Lives See Directly Contrary Teaching Lives
I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history. Ruth Negga
History Become Think Complacency Complacent Back Leads Know Understand Repeating Referring Keep
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. Hugh Evans
History People Simple Whatever Action Think Complacency Everyday Our Strikes Montgomery Scale Wearing Rely Songs Force Protest Boycott Flags Movements Bus Shows Designed Disrupt Symbolic Symbols
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. John P. Kotter
Anxiety Fear Complacency Panic State Virtually Rate Absent Higher Imply Does Which Urgency Means
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. Paul Ryan
People Safety Complacency Net Safety Net Hammock Dependence Want Turn
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
First Breath Complacency Draw Outburst Vanity Fresh Always After
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. James Howard Kunstler
Rain Living Complacency Other Everyday Worldwide Striking About Devastation Environment Calamity Headlines Global Global Warming Forests American May Represents Newspaper Warming Shout Growing Species
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. Marv Levy
You Change Experience Old Long Become Before Complacency Too Way Say Plus Going Then Should
The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it. Alexis Ohanian
People Internet Thinking Complacency Frankly Threat See More More And More Always Going Want Biggest Themselves Us Defenders
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency. Ben Shapiro
Wealth Complacency Earn Settle Way System Faced Never Prospect American Against Depressed Choices Rebel Two
The biggest mistake to me is complacency. Bonnie Hammer
Me Mistake Complacency Biggest Biggest Mistake
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. Gavin Newsom
Government You Innovation Will Complacency Monopoly Tell Economist Ultimate Any Lack Often Breed Monopolies
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. Timothy White
You Complacency Kind Redesign Because Familiarity Familiarity Breeds Breeds Need
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. Wynton Marsalis
Democracy Eyes Corruption Generation Closed Complacency Enrich Our Entered No Idea My Generation Absolutely Dropped Idea Period Ball Did Public
Don't be lulled into complacency. Alan Gerry
Complacency Lulled
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English. Alice Oswald
Life You Writing Relax Nothing Rage Complacency Kicks Relaxing About Poem Area Head Like Particularly Friction Lot Afford Any Senses Means Your English Awake Keep
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson
Photography Sense Complacency Medium Though Superficial Something True Leads Know False False Sense Deceitful Us Even Believing Necessarily
I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions. Ari Aster
Love Myself People Think Complacency Consider Horror Devices Know Genre Conventions Certain Film Amount Watching Filmmaker
Sometimes success can bring complacency. Brad Parscale
Success Sometimes Complacency Bring
If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more. Campbell Scott
Time Good You People Dark Darkness Try Humor Will Complacency Battling Hopefully Some Something Guy More Mystery Like Because Audience Surpass Mix Up Expectations Different Happen Little Might Show Bring Good Guy Playing
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done. Chris Coleman
Success Nature You Human Nature Think Complacency About Well How Done Human Happen Urge
When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else. Chris Jericho
Time You Nervous Move On Sets Complacency Else Something Something Else Retire Feel Because Always Move Stop Being Anything Little Should
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