Roger Craig Smith Quotes

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems.

It's amazing how quickly things start to change when you haven't slept. Your memory goes. Physically, you don't feel well. Emotionally, you're all over the place - you know, if you miss one night of sleep. You can only imagine five nights of not sleeping. I was in an alternate state of reality.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.

When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.