Quotes with complacency

  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • 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.

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  • Aesop 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.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Campbell Scott If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Albert Camus Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Baba Kalyani 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
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • David Sarnoff The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays 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
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Pat Riley When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 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.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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