Quotes About Alertness

One reason you get groggy, long-distance driving, is that you don't move your face.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.

Forewarned forearmed.

The quick reflexes, the calmness in the face of a storm, the ability to think in the midst of danger that most people don't have.

If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

First of all, I'm not even tired.

There's no such thing as a superhuman. But the only thing I got to tell you, if you take a dog and kick him around he's got to be alert, he's got to be more sharper than you. Well, we've been kicked around for two thousand years. We're not more smarter, we're more alert.

Even when called out By a single foe, Remain on guard, For you are always surrounded By a host of enemies

Beware the ire of the calm.

Anyone or anything that forces me to fall asleep when I want to stay awake is considered toxic to my senses.

The only benefit of fear is to be afraid when everyone else are getting too greedy.

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.

The French waited a couple of minutes and fired again. That shot fell alongside.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention

I understood that I was a fairly highly strung person, that my default state was one of readiness. I had rarely felt completely comfortable in my skin or at ease with my surroundings. I was always in a state of alert, on the lookout for any kind of menace or danger, and events and people had often proved me right because, I suppose, my judgement simply wasn't that good. I suspect much of this came from my upbringing, which had rarely felt relaxed, or even happy.

Be present, stay alert: the first rule of self-defense. But then I wouldn't be able to shut out the noise and stink and tension around me.

She looked at the bag, slitty-eyed as a cat by a mouse hole.

The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.