Quotes About Alertness

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

Routine wears down vigilance.

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

That said, forewarned is forearmed,

I felt ready for anything, as long as it wasn't too threatening.

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Nothing can replace sleep, but coffee can do it best. I love coffee.

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.

I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.

When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

When you're not sleeping, you're not thinking straight.

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I don't have very good peripheral vision, that so-called sixth sense people have. I used to have a really good one, and now I couldn't feel anybody come around a corner.

Daily, caffeine proposes itself as the optimal solution to the problem caffeine creates. How brilliant!

Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.

Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions, which have been similar throughout the ages. One such condition is a permanent state of alertness to ward off attack. Another is the rule of the autocrat. —CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile Treatise on the Downfall of Unjust Governments

After the first gunshot, they dove to the ground and pressed themselves flat. Then came two other shots, followed shortly by more. Nick was sure he heard one of the bullets zing off a nearby tree.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.