Daniel Libeskind Quotes

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

There's a lot of distractions in New York.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker.

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

On occasion, it's rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I'll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I'm up late because I've got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I'm up early 'cause I've got things to do, so that's the only thing. That's how I like it; I like to be busy.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

Thing about New York is it is so exciting with so much to do.

You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.