Complacency Quotes
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove -
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.
Geoff Mulgan
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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.
Alison Jackson -
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.
Baba Kalyani -
From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
Lee Smolin -
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.
James Stewart -
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov -
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
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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.
Rand Paul -
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.
Douglas Dunn -
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
Chuck Grassley -
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
Lennox Lewis -
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 -
There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
Alan Shepard
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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.
Og Mandino -
Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
Brian Tracy -
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
Peter Maxwell Davies -
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.
Alice James -
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.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
Don't be lulled into complacency.
Alan Gerry
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I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
Mary Barnett Gilson -
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.
Pal Benko -
People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.
Dee Rees -
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