Quotes About Alertness

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

The first thing you want to do after being shot is make sure you are not shot again.

We want you to pay attention.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Beware of silent dogs and still waters

Be prudent! Don't let them pass their balls at your goals.

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.

Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a MONK on all sides

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.

I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

If I'm on the bench, I want to be ready.

When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

Be on the lookout for Saban Brands on a constant basis.

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Don't listen, whispered Faber. He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a great Dzogchen master of the last century, taught, "There is one thing we always need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness, the guard who is on the lookout for when we get carried away in mindlessness.

looking on the dark side, in some scenarios, is valuable. In the midst of a disaster, the man who loudly proclaims the coming trouble will surely be more valuable than the optimist who sits dreamily admiring the daisies. It

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.