Quotes About Watchfulness

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

constant vigilance

And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

responding patrols.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

Vanity I am sensible, is my cardinal Vice and cardinal Folly, and I am in continual Danger, when in Company, of being led an ignis fatuus Chase by it, without the strictest Caution and watchfulness over my self.

Next time you leave the house, think about who might be watching you. Do you pass a traffic camera? Do the shops you go to have security cameras? Is there a camera on board your train or bus? What about in your school? The cafes and restaurants where you eat? Street corners? Subways? And who is on the other side of that camera? A private security guard? The police? The government? How can you tell?

what it could do by patrolling systematically

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

Advice is a dangerous thing, the Watcher responded. It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.

The American abolitionist Wendell Phillips did in fact say that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

permanent state of high alert.

Quis custodier ipsos custodes?

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

Rule #1: Protect Your Scavenger.

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud