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Quotes About Alertness

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?
~ King Von
Nighttime frequently increases alertness, and each mission should consider the ramifications of a night assault. Several of the most successful special operations were conducted in daytime and achieved a high degree of surprise.
~ William H. McRaven
Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake.
~ Rebecca Solnit
El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.
~ Richard Adams
I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.
~ K?b? Abe
Dieses frühzeitiges Aufstehen macht einem ganz blödsinnig. Man muss sein Schlaf haben...
~ Kafka, Franz
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"
~ Bryan Kest
Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.
~ Kevin Garnett
I am not a morning person.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.
~ Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
~ Kai Ryssdal
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
~ David Hackworth
To be awake is to be alive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The price of peace is eternal vigilance
~ George C. Marshall
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
~ Washington Irving
A sleeping cat is ever alert.
~ Fred Schwab
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.
~ Pat Riley
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
~ Will Smith
Smile, but keep your powder dry.
~ Will Thomas
You are not prepared.
~ William King