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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
" Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. "
Franz Kafka
" An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. "
Peter Maxwell Davies
" Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different. "
Francis Spufford
" 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. "
Henry Petroski
" Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. "
Vladimir Nabokov
" Don't be lulled into complacency. "
Alan Gerry
" Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old. "
Marv Levy
" For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. "
Tom Hollander
" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "
Gavin Newsom
" Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "
Shari Redstone
" I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency. "
Taj Mahal
" I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. "
Nigel Kennedy
" I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. "
Wynton Marsalis
" I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. "
Trent Reznor
" I think complacency is what you allow it to be. "
Draymond Green
" I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history. "
Ruth Negga
" I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me. "
Juliette Lewis
" 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
" It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency. "
John Mackey
" 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
" Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' "
James Chanos
" People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination. "
Dee Rees
" Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. "
Alison Jackson
" Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from. "
Elijah Wood
" Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "
Andy Grove
" The biggest mistake to me is complacency. "
Bonnie Hammer
" The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. "
Diane Ravitch
" The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. "
James Howard Kunstler
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