Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ravitch

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Alice James

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

John P. Kotter

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Joseph Addison

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

John Hawkes

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Rick Warren

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Diablo Cody

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Denis Waitley

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Bill Nighy

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Cass McCombs

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Diana Gabaldon

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Donald Selkin

It's two things. The old cliche is that the market hates uncertainty. So this removes the uncertainty.

Rob Kelly

It's the cup, and all the old cliches will come out - and they are all true. We are looking forward to it and we will give it a right good go.

Michael Mann

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Brian Tompkins

It's a cliche to say, but Shannon really leads by example. It was a wonderful effort from a wonderful player.

Kevin Connolly

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'

Jennifer Aniston

The sad thing, for me, is the way it's been reduced to a Hollywood cliche -- or maybe it's just a human cliche.

Charles Olson

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

Michael Hirst

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.