Quotes About Vigilance

Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear.

I was impressed. I had been taking care not to stand out or to otherwise become memorable, and he had spotted me anyway. He was well attuned to his environment, to the patterns that might at some point make the difference between winning and losing. Or living and dying.

The trick was to assume the worst and act accordingly.

Most people find it hard to do two things at once, like complete a sentence and avoid a palm heel to the nose.

And so by carefully investigating what is here and now, we must seek for the things that can save us. We should flee, entirely, all the works of lawlessness; otherwise, they may overwhelm us. And we should hate the error of the present age, that we may be loved in the age to come. 2 We should not allow our souls to relax, thinking they can consort with sinners and the wicked; otherwise we may become like them.

Lenin taught us that every party member should be a Chekist, that is, should observe and denounce. . . . If we suffer from anything, it is not denunciations but non-denunciations.

we must defend ourselves against extremism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ from the beginning.

If history has taught us nothing else, we have learned that we must defend ourselves against extremism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ from the beginning.

She decided not to ready her gun until she saw who was there.

Make sure you've always got one foot on his brakes and another on yours.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

But success makes us complacent. We forget to pay attention. We take what we have for granted. We turn a blind eye. We fail to notice that things are changing, or that corruption is taking root. And everything falls apart. Is that the fault of reality—of God? Or do things fall apart because we have not paid sufficient attention?

one of the matters he cautions readers to be most wary of is ideology, no matter who is peddling it or to what end.

I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.

My greatest desire is my country's happiness, a happiness I would like to be owed to the mother country and the efforts of my fellow citizens, united with one another with eternal ties of common vigilance and common interests.

Not Brangien who was faithful, not Brangien, but themselves had these lovers to fear, for hearts so stricken will lose their vigilance. Love pressed them hard, as thirst presses the dying stag to the stream; love dropped upon them from high heaven, as a hawk slipped after long hunger falls right upon the bird. And love will not be hidden.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Siempre hay que estar alerta: el momento en que uno cree que ha ganado es siempre el momento más peligroso

A major way that threats change arousal is via outputs of the CeA to neuromodulatory systems (Figure 8.7).73 (By the way, the amygdala also processes appetitive stimuli and the CeA also activates neuromodulatory systems in their presence74). The consequence of CeA activation of neuromodulatory systems is an increase in attention and vigilance, which may be achieved by lowering the threshold to detect sensory stimuli.

Do you think I did this alone? Do you think you're safe within your own Clan?" He coughed, spitting out clots of blood, and added, "Think again!

She had to stay alert, ready to chivvy any of the hulking beasts who tried to slow down or escape, but now the herd had settled into a steady, drumming rhythm. This

better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.