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Complacency Quotes

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Sidney Blumenthal

Truth Complacency Truth Is Terrorism

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Education Hope Complacency American

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Complacency Hurts Both Beneficiaries

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

Death Kiss Complacency Say Always

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.

History Simple People Complacency

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov

Mind Complacency Being Only State

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Character Truth Great Complacency Up

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

Myself Complacency Uncomfortable Try

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.

Work Complacency Laziness Schedule

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Mistake Me Complacency Biggest

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Complacency You Kind Need Because

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Technology Complacency Wind Control

The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

Complacency China Hold Accountable

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Benjamin E. Mays

Life Failure Complacency Doing Above

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

Complacency Arrogance Racing You Up

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.

Confidence Complacency Insecurity

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.

Life Complacency Relax Writing You

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

Fear Day Complacency World Face

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.

Glenn Greenwald

Challenge People Me Law Complacency

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

People Safety Complacency Want Turn

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

Complacency Choices Rebel Wealth Way

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Hate Complacency See Prevail Christ

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

Faith People Me Complacency Find

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

Complacency Think You Allow I Think

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