Complacency Quotes - Page 9

• To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

  Dorothee Solle

  Mundo

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• To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Self, Envy, Examination

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• I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

  Allan Boesak

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• A medida que los cristianos sienten los vientos cambiantes del clima político, las explosiones contra sus valores en los medios de comunicación, la exclusión de la fe cristiana de las instituciones educativas, empiezan a percibir los peligros de la autocomplacencia y de la huida pietista del mundo.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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• Acepté complacientemente el orden social en el que me educaron. Probablemente habría continuado en mi complacencia si no me hubiera tocado en suerte la feliz necesidad de la autosuficiencia; si la autosuficiencia no hubiera profundizado y ampliado mis contactos y mi experiencia.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Self, Order, Support

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• The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, People, Empowerment

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• She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Stupid, Jealous

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1097, Simon and Schuster

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• The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

  Carl Sagan

  Ozone Layer, Together, Layers

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• It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Self, Temptation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2614, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Long, People

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• The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

  Noah Levine

  Wise, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Así que a veces las cosas van por delante y a veces van por detrás; a veces respirar es difícil y a veces resulta fácil; a veces hay fuerza y a veces debilidad; a veces se está arriba y a veces abajo. Por eso el sabio evita los extremos, los excesos y la complacencia.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

  Terry Goodkind

  Betrayal, Hate, Leave Me Alone

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.476, Head of Zeus

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• La teoría y la práctica no sólo se entrelazan con la propia cultura, sino con la responsabilidad de dar forma al entorno, de romper la complacencia social y desafiar el poder del statu quo.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Responsibility, Practice, Challenges

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• Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.

  Pal Benko

  Ignorance, Player, Errors

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• Como una inesperada fregona húmeda frente a la cansada complacencia, La solución de la soberanía actúa sobre la mente receptiva como una palanca sobre una caja herméticamente cerrada. Escrito con valentía y pasión, se trata de un libro cuya claridad, a menudo contraintuitiva, sacude como un terremoto las suposiciones enterradas. Tanto si acaba convencido como si no, nunca volverá a pensar en la seguridad nacional estadounidense de la misma manera.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Book, Passion, Tired

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• Centrarse incesantemente en los indicadores externos del éxito puede llevar a la autocomplacencia. Puede volverte perezoso.

  Barack Obama

  Funny Graduation, Focus, Lazy

  "The Best Advice From Obama’s Commencement Speeches As President" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

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• Creo que la raíz de toda felicidad en esta tierra reside en la realización de una vida espiritual con conciencia de algo más amplio que el materialismo; en la capacidad de vivir en un mundo que te hace altruista porque no te preocupan en exceso tus propias falibilidades cómicas; que te da tranquilidad sin complacencia porque crees en algo mucho más grande que tú mismo.

  Hugh Walpole

  Vida, Felicidad, Espiritual

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• It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions.

  Paul Bocuse

  Appreciation, Teaching, Off The Beaten Path

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• In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Knives, Civilization, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• Es triste que, debido a la comodidad, la autocomplacencia, el miedo mórbido al comunismo y nuestra propensión a adaptarnos a la injusticia, las naciones occidentales que iniciaron gran parte del espíritu revolucionario del mundo moderno se hayan convertido ahora en las archi-antirevolucionarias.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Comfort, Breaking Silence, Arches

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Tears, Addresses

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• If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Generations, Sirens, Messages

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• La gente da por sentado que [el negro] no debe trabajar con la cabeza. Y es tan fácil para estas personas entre las que vivimos creer esto; halaga y satisface su autocomplacencia.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Believe, Self, People

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.358, Modern Library

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