Quotes About Alertness

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

You just remember who the enemy is," Haymitch says. "That's all.

Tick, tock," I hear behind me. I turn and see Wiress has crawled over. Her eyes are focused on the jungle.

I'm not tired,I'm just checking my eyelids for holes.It could take a while.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake.

if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

These people are the ones to watch out for

But I also buy the opposite argument that regulating street signs does not seem to reduce risks; drivers become more placid. Experiments show that alertness is weakened when one relinquishes control to the system (again, lack of overcompensation). Motorists need the stressors and tension coming from the feeling of danger to feed their attention and risk controls, rather than some external regulator—fewer pedestrians die jaywalking than using regulated crossings.

So be careful when you bend over.

Pay attention: There will be an exam later.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

I'm not an early morning person.

I'm not too much of a morning person.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

They marched a good way apart from each other, that the clashing of their arms might not betray them; and they were lightly equipped, having the right foot bare that they might be less liable to slip in the mud.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.