Danger Awareness Quotes

it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Denial is not always a bad thing. Without it, you couldn't function. For instance, if you were hyperaware and hypervigilant regarding all the dangers in the world - from driving your car to crossing the street to eating food that might have contaminants in it to taking medications that have many side effects, etc. - you would become frozen.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him, but I'd probably move. But I'm not gonna call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

But we're aware of the danger all the time. We all know what can happen. I jump in the car and forget it. If you start thinking one of us will get hurt it's more likely to happen.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

Filming 'It's Not Rocket Science' has made me realise I'm missing the part of my brain that warns me about danger because - even though the tasks are terrifying - I find it really exciting.

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.