Complacency Quotes

• 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
  • Player
  • Ignorance
  • Patience

• I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Complacency

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

  

  C. D. Darlington
  • Complacency

• 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
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Support

• Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Moral

• As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Quality
  • Provoking
  • Anthropology

• Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Ignorance
  • Complacency
  • Disciplined

• We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Desire
  • Break
  • Lovers

• The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Women
  • Tears
  • Softness

• A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Son
  • Complacency

• The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • May
  • Growing
  • Environment

• Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.

  

  Peter Mayer
  • Complacency

• 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

• I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

  

  William Godwin
  • Understanding
  • Decision
  • Determination

• WWE has no issues with my stand-up. I do not miss work for any reason and will continue to work around my schedule because I'm a professional and do not allow complacency or laziness.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Professional

• My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Fear
  • Authenticity
  • Complacency

• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  

  Hugh Evans
  • Song
  • Action
  • Simple

• I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Strong
  • Helping
  • Comfort

• There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Nothing
  • Complacency

• It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

  

  John Mackey
  • Competition
  • Complacency

• Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Complacency

• As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Victory

• For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Satisfaction
  • Aspiration
  • Distasteful

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