Quotes About Alertness

It's not time to worry yet

Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.

Sleep debt is cumulative. Studies have shown that performance on tests of alertness and thinking continues to get worse the longer sleep deprivation lasts. In other words, we do not adapt to sleep deprivation.

Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!

Keep your eyes open! Look out below! Look out above! Look out for spies! Look out for one another! Look out! Aye! Be very careful! Be very aware! Be very much! Take a break! No—keep going! Stay awake! Calm down! Cheer up! Keep climbing! Keep your shirt on! Aye!

Günter killed his light and waited in the pitch-black, straining his ears for the noise to repeat itself.

The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

We equate being smart and being driven as the ways to get ahead. But sometimes, an attitude of alert watchfulness is far wiser and more effective. Learning to follow your nose, pulling on threads of curiosity or interest, may take you places that being driven will never lead you to.

Listen for dangerous words.

The American abolitionist Wendell Phillips did in fact say that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

sólo estamos despiertos a medias.

permanent state of high alert.

A little extra caffeine this morning. It's gonna be a long day!!

coffee-then-nap combination known as the "nappuccino.

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

He has come into a wakefulness as quiet as sleep.

Expect poison from the standing water.

The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations.