Complacency
noun
A feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
Some people perform best when they sense a degree of complacency and comfort.
Often appears as...
- sense of complacency
- dangerous complacency
noun
A feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
Some people perform best when they sense a degree of complacency and comfort.
Often appears as...
- sense of complacency
- dangerous complacency
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Complacency often implies a lack of self-awareness or growth, which can be seen as negative.
Her complacency about her skills meant she didn't seek improvement.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Caution
In some cultures, being too satisfied with oneself is viewed negatively, so use 'complacency' carefully.
His complacency was frowned upon in a society that valued humility.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Warning
Complacency can be used to subtly suggest that someone should be more ambitious or vigilant.
The team's complacency might cost them the championship if they're not careful.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Complacency often implies a lack of self-awareness or growth, which can be seen as negative.
Her complacency about her skills meant she didn't seek improvement.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Caution
In some cultures, being too satisfied with oneself is viewed negatively, so use 'complacency' carefully.
His complacency was frowned upon in a society that valued humility.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Warning
Complacency can be used to subtly suggest that someone should be more ambitious or vigilant.
The team's complacency might cost them the championship if they're not careful.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Complacency often implies a lack of self-awareness or growth, which can be seen as negative.
Her complacency about her skills meant she didn't seek improvement.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Caution
In some cultures, being too satisfied with oneself is viewed negatively, so use 'complacency' carefully.
His complacency was frowned upon in a society that valued humility.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Warning
Complacency can be used to subtly suggest that someone should be more ambitious or vigilant.
The team's complacency might cost them the championship if they're not careful.
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How to find work you...
are encouraging complacency and keeping us from pursuing the things that matter to us so we have to manage those surroundings. I found myself in this situation -- personal example, a couple years ago. Has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion they poured their heart and soul into,
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Interview: Paul Sereno PIPE...
we've lulled ourselves into into complacency in the years since that time and and what's really really is now is is our changing world and we've got to have the engineers and the scientists in the generation to come if we are actually going to survive as a species
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Bruce Aylward: Humanity...
Because when you've been at something for this long, on this scale, two other big threats come in to join the virus. The first of those is complacency, the risk that as this disease curve starts to bend, the media look elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere.
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Is the world getting...
Let me address some questions about progress that no doubt have occurred to many of you. First, isn't it good to be pessimistic to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to power? Well, not exactly. It's good to be accurate.
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The War in Ukraine Could...
talked about the era of peace, some people understood it as kind of encouraging complacency. That, oh, we don't need to worry about anything. No, I mean, the message was really the opposite. It was a message of responsibility.
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How we can help the...
In many ways, we overlook the folks in the middle because they don't keep us up awake at night wondering what crazy thing they're going to come up with next. And the truth is that we've come to rely on their complacency
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Learning from dirty jobs...
I mean, I was like -- So, the idea that we create this sense of complacency when all we do is talk about somebody else's responsibility as though it's our own, and vice versa. Anyhow, a whole lot of things.
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Laura Carstensen: Older...
with a kind of a complacency, even ease. But make no mistake, longer lives can -- and, I believe, will improve quality of life at all ages. Now to put this in perspective, let me just zoom out for a minute.
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How we can navigate the...
a seismic shift such as this in order to shake us out of our kind of complacency well I always make sure we observe the difference by between asking why is this happened and what then should we do
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Why should you read "The...
intellectual, and sexual rules, that drives the plot of the Handmaid's Tale. Ultimately, the novel's exploration of the consequences of complacency, and how power can be wielded unfairly,
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How to find work you...
are encouraging complacency and keeping us from pursuing the things that matter to us so we have to manage those surroundings. I found myself in this situation -- personal example, a couple years ago. Has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion they poured their heart and soul into,
Video examples
Interview: Paul Sereno PIPE...
we've lulled ourselves into into complacency in the years since that time and and what's really really is now is is our changing world and we've got to have the engineers and the scientists in the generation to come if we are actually going to survive as a species
Video examples
Bruce Aylward: Humanity...
Because when you've been at something for this long, on this scale, two other big threats come in to join the virus. The first of those is complacency, the risk that as this disease curve starts to bend, the media look elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere.
Video examples
Is the world getting...
Let me address some questions about progress that no doubt have occurred to many of you. First, isn't it good to be pessimistic to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to power? Well, not exactly. It's good to be accurate.
Video examples
The War in Ukraine Could...
talked about the era of peace, some people understood it as kind of encouraging complacency. That, oh, we don't need to worry about anything. No, I mean, the message was really the opposite. It was a message of responsibility.
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How we can help the...
In many ways, we overlook the folks in the middle because they don't keep us up awake at night wondering what crazy thing they're going to come up with next. And the truth is that we've come to rely on their complacency
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Learning from dirty jobs...
I mean, I was like -- So, the idea that we create this sense of complacency when all we do is talk about somebody else's responsibility as though it's our own, and vice versa. Anyhow, a whole lot of things.
Video examples
Laura Carstensen: Older...
with a kind of a complacency, even ease. But make no mistake, longer lives can -- and, I believe, will improve quality of life at all ages. Now to put this in perspective, let me just zoom out for a minute.
Video examples
How we can navigate the...
a seismic shift such as this in order to shake us out of our kind of complacency well I always make sure we observe the difference by between asking why is this happened and what then should we do
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Why should you read "The...
intellectual, and sexual rules, that drives the plot of the Handmaid's Tale. Ultimately, the novel's exploration of the consequences of complacency, and how power can be wielded unfairly,
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Francis Spufford
English Author
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.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
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J. Cole
American Musician
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
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.
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Ari Aster
American Director
The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.
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Benjamin E. Mays
American Educator
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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Jordan Burroughs
American Athlete
I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.
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Wynton Marsalis
American Musician
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.
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Aesop
Greek Author
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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John Mackey
American Businessman
It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
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Francis Spufford
English Author
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.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
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J. Cole
American Musician
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
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.
Quote examples
Ari Aster
American Director
The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.
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Benjamin E. Mays
American Educator
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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Jordan Burroughs
American Athlete
I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.
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Wynton Marsalis
American Musician
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.
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Aesop
Greek Author
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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John Mackey
American Businessman
It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
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