Christina Tosi Quotes

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.

Whether I get four hours of sleep or eight, I always feel well-rested.

There were 10 to 12 years where I averaged two to three hours of sleep a night. There were times when I didn't go to sleep for two days, but I'd usually crash one Sunday a month for 16 to 18 straight hours, and then I'd be rejuvenated.

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

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.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

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.

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

I can sleep anywhere from eight hours to 12 hours - but then I can also go on no sleep.

I'm the type of person that cannot survive if I have a lack of sleep. I just turn into an angry monster so I have to be pretty consistent about getting a good night's rest and, you know, even if that means saying no to a dinner date or going out somewhere.

I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

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.

It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.

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

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

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I don't need much sleep.

I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.