A Quote by Timothy White

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

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Timothy White
American - Critic
January 25, 1952 - June 27, 2002

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Rick Warren

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

Jay Conrad Levinson

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

Edward Norton

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

Stephen King

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.