Quotes About Alertness

that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.

Situational awareness.

But the Fuehrer had smelled a rat

Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.

she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

How dare people sleep, how dare they lie so blankly in the dark?

Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.

El heroísmo consiste en resistir, en estar siempre alerta, alegre y fuerte, en medio de esa ausencia de felicidad

Dopo un po', Tamara si addormentò. Era per evitare questo che aveva parlato. Il suo sonno gli sembrava una diserzione. Succedeva sempre quando lui si sentiva più sveglio. Era pronto a fare dichiarazioni immortali.

Strangely, I, who frequently grow round-eyed and alert as an owl at the stroke of midnight, find it pleasant to nap in daylight among friends. I can roll up on a couch and sleep peacefully while my wife and chatting friends who know my peculiarities keep the daytime universe safely under control. Or so it seems. For, deep-seated in my subconscious, is perhaps the idea that the black bedroom door is the gateway to the tomb.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

At the first rumors of revolt, or even in preventive anticipation, the ruling class would take up the mace and the sword to re-establish its authority. This tension kept the main beneficiaries of the parasitic regime in a state of animal alertness and fitness; and they habitually re-sharpened their predatory edge by hunting lions and tigers. Those who lost their edge and sank into parasitic inertia were speedily displaced by more able and active rivals.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

Run if you can because, in spite of how it looks on television, it's hard to hit a moving target. If you can't run, fight and fight dirty. Go for the eyes. Think of every object around you as a weapon. Strike fast and hard when you get the chance because you'll only get one chance.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

cultivation, of that spirit of the novice: the naïve optimism, the hypervigilant alertness that comes with novelty and insecurity, the willingness to look foolish, and the permission to ask obvious questions—the unencumbered beginner's mind.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Wake me if anything exciting happens," Glory said. "But make sure it's actually exciting, not Sunny-exciting.

The brighter the moons were, the more wide-awake Deathbringer felt.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.