Matthew Walker Quotes

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Part of how easily we go to sleep is genetic: many sleep disturbances, ranging from insomnia to circadian disruption, have a large genetic component.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

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

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

Sleep is incredibly important for physical appearance.

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.

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

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.

I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Sleep has been provided by nature to do the body's healing work, and it takes seven or eight hours for this process to happen. Commit to getting at least seven to eight hours of good quality sleep every night to keep your body and hormones in balance.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

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

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

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.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

I tend to sleep a lot.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours.

Sleep is the apple a day, really, for singers.