944 Sleep Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. Matthew Walker

Death Best Nature Mother Counter Effort Sleep

I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that's surprising to me. Matthew Walker

You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. Matthew Walker

Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week. Matthew Walker

You Signals Tend Week Weekends Off Debt Accumulate Trying Sleep

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less. Matthew Walker

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep. Matthew Walker

Light Our Profound Sleep

The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact. Matthew Walker

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We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle. Matthew Walker

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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. Matthew Walker

Time Family Entertainment Give No-One Instead Up Wants Sleep

When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public. Matthew Walker

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Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. Matthew Walker

Seven Recommended Objective Hours Eight Body Below Sleep

As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it. Matthew Walker

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health. Matthew Walker

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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. Matthew Walker

Older Able Seem Adult Generate Simply Efficiently Getting Why Sleep

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together. Max Richter

People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that. Max Richter

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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it. May-Britt Moser

Love Good Coffee Out Well Because Cup Friends Did Oh Stop After Again Function Why Night Sleep

My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep. Mayer Hawthorne

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