Jeff Cooper Quotes

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

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

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

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.'

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

Use your eyes. Do not enter unfamiliar areas that you cannot observe first. Make it a practice to swing wide around corners, use window glass for rearward visibility, and get something solid behind you when you pause.

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.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Look up and down and round about you.!

Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.

I am unobservant.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I got to be more careful and more focused with my surroundings, because everybody wants to reach out to me, and I don't know if it's good or bad.

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.

I try to watch everybody.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.