Being Alert Quotes

Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. The whole point is: one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

There is no way to keep your thumb on the pulse unless you have your thumb on the pulse, and I think we have it.

Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.

Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a.m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story."

Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

My mom always says if my head weren't attached to my neck I would love it because literally so much is going on that I have no time to think about anything. I just constantly have to be on my toes and do whatever is needed at a moments notice.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

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