Quotes About Vigilance

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

Be careful not to trip over yourself.

You have to learn to protect your house before the thief enters, after he has entered, you have to know how to pray."

Ay, this is the famed rock, which HerculesAnd Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this doorEngland stands sentry.

A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one's guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required. Cognitive ease is both a cause and a consequence of a pleasant feeling.

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A los que evitan el pecado de la pereza intelectual podríamos llamarlos «diligentes». Están más alerta, son intelectualmente más activos, están menos dispuestos a quedarse satisfechos con respuestas superficialmente sugerentes, y son más escépticos con sus intuiciones.

Our subjects were exposed to a series of rapidly flashing letters while they worked. They were told to give the task complete priority, but they were also asked to report, at the end of the digit task, whether the letter K had appeared at any time during the trial.

The conclusion is that the ease with which instances come to mind is a System 1 heuristic, which is replaced by a focus on content when System 2 is more engaged. Multiple lines of evidence converge on the conclusion that people who let themselves be guided by System 1 are more strongly susceptible to availability biases than others who are in a state of higher vigilance. The

continuous vigilance is not necessarily good, and it is certainly impractical. Constantly questioning our own thinking would be impossibly tedious, and System 2 is much too slow and inefficient to serve as a substitute for System 1 in making routine decisions. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. However, it is also adaptive for the initial caution

sense. A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one's guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required. Cognitive

Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used.

The MI folks could usually tell you the make, model, year, paint color, and license plate of the semitrailer truck that just ran over you.

Complacency, he had warned her, was an illegal's greatest enemy

The Society practiced democracy internally, even though most of its members believed it was a rather cumbersome concept in the real world. The Society's founding creed declared peace was dangerous. Its members believed constant controlled global tension served the interests of all. It prevented complacency. It maintained vigilance. It built national identity. And most of all it made them money, a good deal of money.

Yaakov had taken up a post hundred yards from the warehouse

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

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She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.