Wide Awake Quotes

70 quotes by 62 authors

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get… — Chinua Achebe
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens… — Antonio Machado
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which… — Carlos Castaneda
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… — Octavio Paz
The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because… — Johnny Marr
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a… — Evan Davis
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I. — W. S. Gilbert
There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not… — Lorenzo Snow
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark… — Edward Hirsch
As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of… — Ray Kurzweil
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. — Lorenz Hart
When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day. — Paul McCartney
Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen… — Margaret Feinberg
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves,… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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