Complacency Quotes - Page 11

• The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Vanity, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Lying, Kids

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Adventure

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• A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

  John P. Kotter

  Mean, Anxiety, Doe

  John P. Kotter (2013). “Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author”, p.130, Harvard Business Press

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And most of all, there is truth, ordinary and simple, just sitting there to be plucked, if only we get our lazy rear ends off the pillow of complacency. But first, we need to open our eyes to this banal fact. And for that we need a periodic bit of shakeup in the form of an infusion of wonder - fantastic literature.

  Vera Nazarian

  Eye, Simple, Justice

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

  David Frum

  Democracy, Vulnerable, American Politics

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of fantasy to be not Tolkienesque consolation but subversion - a kind of rebe Ûllion from
  complacency. Yes, I can see what is meant here. And I also see the need to change, to fix, to drastically improve the human lot.

  Vera Nazarian

  Yes I Can, Needs, Roles

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Good Luck, Vain, Difficult

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.  The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.  What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.  Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.  Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.  We are its servants.

  Joel Beeke

  Omission, Silence, Personality

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• The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Vices, Action

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

  Tom Hollander

  People, Satisfaction, Aspiration

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• I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

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• If we get used to life that is the crime.

  Jean Garrigue

  Life, Crime, Used

  Jean Garrigue (1953). “The Monument Rose: Poems”

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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humble, Justice Of God, Mind

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• Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

  Hugh Laurie

  Humility, Pride, Self

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atmosphere, Wedlock, Conjugal

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• It's always good to be underestimated.

  Donald Trump

  Motivation, Underestimated

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

  Tracey Garvis-Graves

  Distance, One Day, Events

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• Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, People, Growth

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• We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Giving, Judging

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.452

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• A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Focus, Skins

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

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