Stephen King Quotes

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

People never notice anything.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.

Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Look eye! Always look eye!

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.