Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

If you don't want competition, I think it means you're scared and you can get a little bit comfortable.

Fabulous is familiarity.

I think people let their guards down when they think that they're not being intimidated or they're not being threatened.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

We can't have the mindset of becoming complacent with losing.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.