Quotes About Alertness

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

Tendency to worry needlessly, endlessly; tendency to scan the horizon looking for something to worry about, alternating with inattention to or disregard for actual dangers. Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Often, it is this anguish of parting - the death of a loved one, the breaking apart of a deep relationship, even the growing up of our children - that propels us into the search for a reality that will never let us down; so this opening passage illustrates, through the experience of Maitreyi, the state of seriousness, of being shocked into alertness, that makes one ready to absorb spiritual insight.

Of course, it is also good to have quite a few in a group who are not so alert to all the dangers and consequences of every action. They will rush out without a whole lot of thought to explore every new thing or fight for the group or territory. Every society needs both. And maybe there is a need for more of the less sensitive because more of them tend to get killed! This is all speculation, of course.

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

it's good to be afraid. You need to be afraid even when there's no need, it keeps you alert. The bond with known spaces, with secure affections, yielded to curiosity about what might happen. Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many.

By arousal, I mean a condition of heightened alertness, awareness, interest, and excitement: a generally enhanced state of being.

Beware of a man who speaks in favour or admiration of women.

Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.

Always have two radar detectors. One to see if there are any cops around, and the second one to make sure there aren't any cops around.

You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.