Quotes About Vigilance

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

ABC I taught you when dealing with the Romans. A: accept nothing; B: believe nobody; C: check everything.

You notice things." "A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. In any city, wherever I go, making speeches, holding meetings of my organization, or attending to other business, black men are watching every move I make, awaiting their chance to kill me. I have said publicly many times that I know that they have their orders.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you[?]

An example of this is if he tells you "get in the car." You never go to a secondary location– ever.

The Art of Living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen - and is not apt to fall.

frenar durante su mandato las aclamaciones y cualquier adulación; ser vigilante de las necesidades del imperio

El arte de vivir es más parecido al de la lucha que al de la danza en la medida que, ante lo que le cae a uno de improviso, hay que mantenerse preparado y sin caerse.

that thou be careful to prevent whatsoever is idle and impertinent: but especially, whatsoever is curious and malicious

thank the gods for giving me such a brother, who was able by his moral character to rouse me to vigilance over myself, and who, at the same time, pleased me by his respect and affection;

The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

Living is more like wrestling than dancing: you have to stay on your feet, ready and unruffled, while blows are being rained down on you, sometimes from unexpected quarters.

The business of life is more akin to wrestling than dancing, for it requires of us to stand ready and unshakable against every assault however unforeseen.

We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time.

Keep steady, I told myself. Don't share too much about yourself, it will be used against you. Listen carefully. Save all clues. Don't show fear.

There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention