You're just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, 'I don't think I can do it.' I think we all have it. When you're fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you're tired, they easily come up to the surface.

- Ashton Eaton

I'm a morning person, really alert.

- Alice Temperley

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

- Donald Hall

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

- Enrique Vila-Matas

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

- Jeff Vandermeer

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.

- June Lockhart

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

- Mary Oliver

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

- Sarah Silverman

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

- Tobias Wolff