Quotes About Alertness

Caffeine blocks the receptor that picks up on the level of adenosine. "I liken it to putting a Post-it note over your fuel-gauge indicator. You're not giving yourself more energy—you're just not realizing how empty you are. When the caffeine wears off, you're doubly exhausted.

Throughout the day, in your brain, a chemical called adenosine is building up, and it signals to you when you are sleepy. Caffeine blocks the receptor that picks up on the level of adenosine. "I liken it to putting a Post-it note over your fuel-gauge indicator. You're not giving yourself more energy—you're just not realizing how empty you are. When the caffeine wears off, you're doubly exhausted.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!

Walking point was adrenaline drippin' from your ears and a butt squeezed so tight you couldn't drive a tenpenny nail up it with a jackhammer. Let me at it!

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

Precaution is better than cure.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.

It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

Safety is as simple as ABC - Always Be Careful.

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.

Don't drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.

Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Don't learn safety by accident.

Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!