Alert Quotes

316 quotes by 245 authors

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away… — Thomas Jane
I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important. — Julia Child
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Unknown Author
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas… — Henry David Thoreau
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the… — John Dewey
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation… — Peter Lilley
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be… — Calvin Coolidge
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in… — Stephen Batchelor
Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares. — David Nabarro
We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our… — Marina Abramovic
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk… — Jonathan Dimbleby
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat… — Mike Tyson
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to… — Oscar Wilde
Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana — Gautama Buddha
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear. — Gautama Buddha
Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can… — Arthur Zajonc

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