Quotes About Alertness

What Your Speed Means

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Being in combat is a pretty accurate description of riding a motorcycle in traffic.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. 'Member me? (Syn)

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

We still and always want waking.