Alertness Quotes

42 quotes by 27 authors

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. — Aldous Huxley
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study… — B. C. Forbes
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily… — D. Patrick Miller
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be… — Eckhart Tolle
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. — Eckhart Tolle
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. — David Whyte
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation. — Jaggi Vasudev
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course… — Jeff Cooper
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield
What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the… — Mao Zedong
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely… — Stephen Dobyns
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats
The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite… — Wolf Kahn
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a… — Eckhart Tolle
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter. — Rajneesh
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does… — Robert A. Heinlein
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a… — Molly Ivins
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world… — Camille Paglia

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