Quotes About Alertness

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

I fell onto the bed and was asleep in seconds. It was a nourishing, dreamless sleep, but I woke after four hours, and I was too alert, too restless, to find sleep again.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

I need you ready in ten seconds'' ''As my boyfriend told me last night

Locked, cocked, and ready to rock, sir!

Hunter and his father leaped into Huntsman Defense Stance—ax in one hand, the other hand held out, knees slightly bent, hair tossed by the breeze. They stood back-to-back, turning, listening to determine direction.

Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized.

I definitely need coffee all the time. I drink probably four or five cups a day.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy

That was what he got for lowering his guard and going off into a dream for a moment.

Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep." "Just do not utter any word that begins with w," she said, "especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deeply asleep he is.

For every twenty-four hours awake, Belenky told me, people lose 25 percent of their capacity for useful mental work.

Rise and shine, porcupines!

David Eastman....was a shade under six feet, his build wiry, like he had been made of bundles of snapping electrical cables that had wound themselves together into a person, sparks still coming from the ends.......Everything on his face was too narrow, too fine. The lines sharp. His eyes always looked half closed, but they had more life behind them than most. It's the creature that pretends to be asleep that you need to watch out for.

These are more dangerous times than we ever have known.

Most people find it hard to do two things at once, like complete a sentence and avoid a palm heel to the nose.

We are well advised to take on challenges at precisely the rate that engages and compels alertness, and forces the development of courage, skill, and talent, and to avoid foolhardy confrontation with that which lies beyond current comprehension.