Complacency Quotes
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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.
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The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
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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.
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The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
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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.
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There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
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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.
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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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.
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
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Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
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The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
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Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
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The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
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Don't be lulled into complacency.
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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.
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I think complacency is what you allow it to be.
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.
