When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

The sun’s champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness.’Extra!...

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil....

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

We feel the ground slipping from beneath our feet, and we want to hold on and stay in control. And so we organize and define (that is, put limits around) what first moved freely within us, flowed out of us, and motivated our action. We also dismiss, with varying degrees of harshness, what does not...

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

I’ve felt sometimes like I’d be less trouble if I’d just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too important. We can’t just let our dreams dry up and die, because then our hearts would break.

Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room, would have begged, say, the dentist, to help them steal away, but the funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know. We...

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

We’ve always done it this way” is invalid when that way hasn’t led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take that how you will…business, personally, church, or family. Complacency is too easy to breed, and already has one foot in the grave.

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man...

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

You are — your life, and nothing else.

complacency is nothing but an an awesome trigger of mediocrity and failure

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them...

When you’re used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it’s a double-edged sword, because there’s the danger of becoming complacent, becoming too happy with that nothing, because you’ve never known anything better. Complacency is the death of dreams, and freedom.

I think we are in a correction that was way overdue. There has been tremendous complacency by strategists about the Asia problem and even up until last week everyone was raising their targets. The Asia problem is real.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he’ll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

You all know,” said the Guide, “that security is mortals’ greatest enemy.

Don’t allow us, Father, as the end draws near to be paralyzed in waiting for a complicated scheme or fancy equipment. WE ARE THE EQUIPTMENT.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that’s described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious....

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by...

There is a dangerous degree of complacency, and out of that comes a surprise that does the most damage to the global economy.

Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.

I wouldn’t want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay – as your world has done.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a...

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

No,” Foyle roared. “Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.””You’re insane, man. You’ve handed a loaded gun to children.””Stop treating them like children and they’ll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?””What are you talking about?””Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all...

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn’t make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn’t crave for anything apart from your own thing.

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don’t go...

Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!