We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
... a relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White Copy Share Image
There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Complacency is the drug I swallowed the night Leo went to prison. Complacency is the price I have paid for the illusion… — Lili St. Germain Copy Share Image
“The choice he was forced to make between faith and complacency is one that faces all Americans, not for the duration of… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
Being happy with your obesity is about as intelligent as being happy with your seat on the railroad tracks. It might work… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let… — Aesop Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think the sign of complacency in the stock market is when people don't worry. At the moment, everyone worries about everything.… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard… — John Manley Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“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
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
“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
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
