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Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

C. D. Darlington

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Money
  • Complacency

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Complacency

• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Real
  • Leaving
  • Complacency

• Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Support

• There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Up
  • Taken

• I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.

  

  James Carville
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Sex

• Don't be lulled into complacency.

  

  Alan Gerry
  • Complacency

• I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Writing

• I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Complacency

• The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Girl
  • Smile

• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.'

  

  James Chanos
  • Tiger
  • Complacency

• The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

  

  E. Digby Baltzell
  • Men
  • High
  • Moral

• It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Contentment
  • Complacency
  • Big Step

• The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

  

  C. D. Darlington
  • Complacency