Sleep Deprivation Solutions Quotes

I'm blessed with the fact that I don't need a tremendous amount of sleep.

The only thing I'm obsessed with is sleeping. I'm really good at it and if I don't do it I'm horrible.

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one is doing anything about it.

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does my brain actually have to do to make me become asleep? What is the difference between that state and this? Why is the weird, invisible change not happening tonight?'

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.

It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.