The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win. — Nikita Parris Copy Share Image
“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger. — Carl Deuker Copy Share Image
Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency. — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because… — Richard E. Besser Copy Share Image
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
