Matthew Walker Quotes

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

The amount of sleep you get has an impact, not just on how you feel the next day, but it has an impact on your long-term health as well.

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

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

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

People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked to numerous forms of cancer - bowel, prostate, breast cancer.

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

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.

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

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.

I'm a very good sleeper.

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

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.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

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