COMPLACENCY QUOTES

quotations about complacency

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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.

MERYL STREEP

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I was drowning in complacency's cheap perfume
yeah licking my wounds

VIGILANTES OF LOVE

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There is no reason without reason
Complacency to be feared
Why do we get out of bed?
Light a fire in your head

DOWN BY LAW

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.

ANDREW S. GROVE

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Don't become complacent because 'things could be worse' but rather get busy because 'things could be better'.

BOBBY DARNELL

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I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of Complacency.

MISHI MCCOY

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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

THOMAS EDISON

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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.

ALBERT CAMUS

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If apathy or complacency or unrighteousness reigns in the heart of a Saint, the gospel will be stripped away and given to another, more responsible steward.

CHRIS HEIMERDINGER

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Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for too long.

ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

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Some call benchmarking and continuous improvement "the race with no finish" because managers and employees avoid complacency with a particular performance level by seeking ongoing improvement. Organizations that adopt this philosophy find they are able to achieve performance levels previously thought unattainable.

MICHAEL W. MAHER

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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.

GLENN GREENWALD

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Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it. You can. We have.

REBECCA SOLNIT

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Pretending to act so serene
On your so called submissive knees
A shopping list of begging pleas
Adds to your complacencies

EXTREME

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The nights are cold
And you are right where you need to be
Some insignificant retreat
The spectrum of complacency
My televised transparency
The listless dreams of sanity
I'll never let you go

WHITE APPLE TREE

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The world would rather you not know who you really are because an ignorant, unaware, and complacent woman is easier to control.

NIAMBI JARVIS & LISA BARTLEY-LACEY

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In America, when reality is distasteful we ignore it. But reality will soon descend like the Furies to shatter our complacency and finally our lives.

CHRIS HEDGES

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Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create discomfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement before the external world demands it.

JAMES C. COLLINS

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

DAN RATHER

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On the outskirts of familiarity
Complacency has a terminal light
And total silence a welcome foreign language
Outrun them all

PREMONITIONS OF WAR

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