Complacency Quotes - Page 5

• The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Self, Form

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XI: "The Self-Satisfied Age", 1929.

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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• So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

  Nick Cave

  Hard Work, Autumn, Years

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• For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

  Paul Theroux

  Years, Maintaining, Sinister

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.

  John P. Kotter

  Views, People, Perfect

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• Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

  Andy Grove

  Technology, Answers, Problem

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

  George Eliot

  Views, Perfect, Looks

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1166, Wordsworth Editions

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• Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

  Brandi Carlile

  Privilege, Sometimes

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Raoul Peck

  Being Yourself, Ignorance, Trying

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Able, Becoming

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

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• Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Earth, Guilty

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• To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

  Bill Walsh

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

  Carrot Top

  Success, Hate, Congratulations

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Scandal, Christianity

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• By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Needs

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

  Bruce Jenner

  Games, People, Rust

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

  Vincent Massey

  Dream, Past, Greatness

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952, 1959.

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• Hate is only conquered by love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Apology, Hateful

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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• From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

  Socrates

  Hate, Philosophical, Hatred

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• Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Couple, Attachment, Self

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• Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

  John P. Kotter

  Products

  John P. Kotter (2013). “A Sense of Urgency”, p.20, Harvard Business Press

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• Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

  Ann Voskamp

  Swallowing, Bears, Conviction

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