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Quotes About Awareness

I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him.
~ John Flanagan
Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.
~ John Flanagan
Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.
~ John Flanagan
Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?
~ John Flanagan
Don't talk to your horse, dear. People are watching," Pauline said quietly. Halt turned a perplexed look toward her. "How do you know when I'm doing that?" She smiled at him. "Your nose twitches." … On the way, Kane [stableboy] kept glancing surreptitiously at the famous Ranger, fascinated by the fact that he kept staring down his nose and tweaking its tip between his forefinger and thumb.
~ John Flanagan
He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.
~ John Flanagan
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.
~ John Flanagan
You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.
~ John Flanagan
Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh. 'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.
~ John Flanagan
As the old Ranger adage went "If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.
~ John Flanagan
Hangovers had a way of teaching people that drinking alcohol was not a good idea.
~ John Flanagan
He hesitated a moment, shifted the load to his left arm and mimed a sword stroke in the air. Crowley looked over his shoulder at the serving boy with some concern. "Planning on beheading me, are you?" he asked. Rafe smiled at him. "No sir, Ranger. Just getting the right side, like. Just shift yourself over while I put these down, before I forget which side is which, now." Crowley
~ John Flanagan
I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two.
~ John Flanagan
I see," said Will. But Halt shook his head. "No. All too often, you don't see, because you don't maintain your concentration. You'll have to work on that." Will said nothing. He merely accepted the criticism. He'd learned by now that Halt didn't criticize without reason. And when there was reason, no amount of excuses could save him.
~ John Flanagan
Only a fool thinks he knows everything.
~ John Flanagan
Better to suspect something and find nothing than to suspect nothing and find something.
~ John Flanagan
Believe you are unseen and it will be so.
~ John Flanagan
He" was a girl indeed, Hal thought.
~ John Flanagan
Jullie kijken ook nooit verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel.
~ John Flanagan
My god, she's beautiful,' he whispered to Will. 'Indeed she is,' the young Ranger responded. Neither of them was aware that they were talking about two different people.
~ John Flanagan
But Hal shook his head angrily. "It's the enemy you don't see that gets you.
~ John Flanagan
Don't try to aim down the arrow shaft," he told her. "You have to sense where the arrow will go.
~ John Flanagan
People rarely notice what they don't expect to see.
~ John Flanagan
Call it instinct, I suppose. Or dumb luck." "I prefer to think it was instinct," Halt told him. "Sometimes I feel we should pay more attention to it.
~ John Flanagan