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Quotes About Alertness

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
~ Saying, c.1915
Be alert! Accidents hurt.
~ Author Unknown
Alert today, alive tomorrow.
~ Author Unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
~ Author Unknown
I was not exactly sleepy, somewhere between alertness and a kind of delirium.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.
~ Author Unknown
It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.
~ Safety saying
Working over 21 hours in a stretch increases the odds of you making a catastrophic error just as much as being legally drunk.
~ Greg Wilson
Be awake in all that you do! Do not think you are already awake. No: you are asleep and dreaming. Be firm, collect yourself, and briefly behold the sensation that runs through your body: "NOW I AM AWAKE!
~ Gustav Meyrink
An unwatched pot boils immediately.
~ H. F. Ellis
Beobachtungsdienst
~ James Holland
constant vigilance
~ James Luceno
Better paranoid then sorry.
~ James Patterson
And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy
~ James Patterson
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
~ James Patterson
Just keeping watch, that's all. If more people kept watch, this would be a safer country.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.
~ Joe Scarborough
There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
~ Dick Cheney
We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.
~ Gabrielle Dennis
On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.
~ Joe Hart
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
~ Jim Evans
There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
~ Bernard Hopkins
As soon as you get complacent with where you are in a game, that's where you come and then it bites you in the rear. So you just want to make sure that you're keeping that energy high, when guys are making plays you're getting excited for them and you're staying locked in through all 60 minutes of the game.
~ Travis Kelce
If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.
~ Arianna Huffington