Matthew Walker Quotes

I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need.

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.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

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

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.

It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

I'm such a good sleeper that I can have tea any time of day, and I will have no problem taking a nap. I'm a professional napper.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

Sleep is huge for me. I don't set an alarm. I just wake up when I wake up.

I typically get 7 to 8 hours, but I'm a 12-plus-hour sleeper. I need to go into hibernation once a week to refuel.

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.

The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

What I do notice is, man, I sleep hard. When my head hits the pillow at night, it feels like five o'clock rolls around real quick.