Quotes About Alertness

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.

Wake up people, you are sleeping your life away!

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.

Taking things for granted is a good way to get yourself killed. – Scourge

Keeping the serpent out of our gardens is the primary assignment of watchmen.

A moment of danger can bring about a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking and thus give you a taste of what it means to be present, alert, aware.

There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting, one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about. In that state, all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking, remembering, anticipating.

Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master," says Jesus. The servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays awake, alert, poised, still, lest he miss the master's arrival.

inner state. You need to be extremely alert and absolutely present to be able to detect them. Whenever you do, it is a moment of awakening, of disidentification from the mind. Here is one of the most common negative states that is easily overlooked, precisely because

Abandone la espera como un estado mental. Cuando se sorprenda a sí mismo cayendo en ella...salga inmediatamente.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.

A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.

The born watchdog patrols his beat once in so often during the night. At all times he must sleep with one ear and one eye alert. By day or by night he must discriminate between the visitor whose presence is permitted and the trespasser whose presence is not. He must know what class of undesirables to scare off with a growl and what class needs stronger measures. He must also know to the inch the boundaries of his own master's land.

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.

Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball's going to come at you, no matter if it's not, but trying to get that mindset going.

During the season, I'm always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.

When you're clicking, you're not making mental mistakes. You're going out there. You're lining up fast.

It's hard to sleep with both eyes closed in this business. It's a lot more mental than people think.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

I drink a lot of coffee.