43 quotes found
“Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.”
“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...”
“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...”
“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 ...”
“Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.”
“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.”
“The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,”
“You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.”
“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...”
“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 alar...”
“Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency.”
“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, becomi...”
“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 cult...”
“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
“Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.”
“I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.”
“The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.”
“People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.”
“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 resig...”
“We don’t have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency”
