Quotes About Alertness

A Warrior is always vigilant.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

Never drink black coffee at lunch: it will keep you awake in the afternoon.

We are machine-centered in our thinking—focused on the optimization of technology and equipment—rather than human-centered—focused on the optimization of human alertness and performance.

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Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.

She straightened her back another degree, even as Merrick's eyelids sank lower. He looked half asleep but he remained alert to everything around him, including her increasingly frail resistance. Good heavens, he didn't have to watch her to confirm her vulnerability. Hadn't she just let him kiss her into a stupor? He hadn't mentioned the kisses. Nor had she. But every time she met his glinting silver eyes, she remembered the shocking intimacy of his tongue in her mouth.

Life lines are entangled: candy cane and matsutake; matsutake and its host trees; host trees and herbs, mosses, insects, soil bacteria, and forest animals; heaving bumps and mushroom pickers. Matsutake pickers are alert to life lines in the forest; searching with all the senses creates this alertness. It is a form of forest knowledge and appreciation without the completeness of classification. Instead, searching brings us to the liveliness of beings experienced as subjects rather than objects.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. MATTHEW 26:41

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

When you're a fighter, you have to be ready all the time. There's no 'I need a month.' It's always time.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.

Somebody comin', he said softly. Five or six, maybe. His words were spoken over an empty fire, for each of us vanished ghostlike into the surrounding darkness. I, fortunately, had the presence of mind to retain my coffee. With the Ferguson rifle in my right hand, I drank coffee from the cup in my left.

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Every successful company must be on guard against the threat of complacency. You have to create a sense of urgency every day in every thing you do.