Quotes About Alertness

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

Watch and wait, boy. Watch and wait.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We need to learn that in the Champions League, the referees are vigilant and quick to whistle.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

giving up caffeine would be like cutting off gasoline from a car engine.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. – Mark 14:37–38

Sleep is a weapon!

Sleep when you can, so you won't need to when you can't.

presence. No

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus...

Like a muezzin in his minaret, one of the talking birds began to shout from the tall palm beyond the mango trees, "Here and now, boys. Here and now, boys.

This state of 'no-mind' exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty