Quotes About Alertness

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

any type of nearby threat. Finally, he opened his eyes

had an extra cup at the café, figuring he would need it to stay alert on the ride

War will find us whether we are ready or not.

It has been said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance'.

Half a century after Linnaeus, Samuel Hahnemann, the homeopath, paraphrased the same thought. Coffee creates an artificially heightened sense of being, according to Hahnemann; presence of mind, alertness, and empathy are all elevated more than in a healthy natural condition; but, he goes on, these effects are unhealthy, in that they throw life off its natural rhythm, which consists in an alteration of wakefulness and sleepiness.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency

Your upbringing has made you tough and taught you that success can only be won by hard work. You know what true warriors are. True warriors don't falter when they're called upon to perform feats of great endurance. True warriors don't fall asleep when they ought to remain alert.

And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

I should never do anything pre-coffee. 'It was only a teeny fire,' I told my uncle over the phone.

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, and your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back, and, as insane as it is, saying please.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.

kneeling, swaying, or sitting in a cross-legged position are believed to have evolved to prevent falling asleep. You should be comfortable and relaxed.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

And everybody watch your back when youre in the front.

You Know What They Say " Forewarned is Forearmed " - Anna Maria

And right now, we are not prepared for anything. That could have deadly consequences in this world.

no one should have to be ordered to prepare for war. It's a dangerous world

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

In such a life, he thinks, there is a truth. You can be so cold that you can't get colder, so wet you can't become wetter. You can feel so deeply that you are saturated, numb but still intensely alert—beyond fear—as if living a memory. Beyond living, he thinks. Surviving.

Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)