Denene Millner Quotes

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 hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

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

I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

I would prefer to get more sleep, quite frankly, because I think I would be more productive at everything.

I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

I go to bed very late and get up very early. If I get five hours, I am very happy.

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.

I sleep three or four hours every night, but I wouldn't change anything.

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.

No sleep makes a human into another human.

Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!

I've managed to achieve a lot because I sleep very little. I tend to survive on about four hours a night, but when I'm stressed it's even less.

Sleep is so important. I think more important than we know. When I haven't slept, I'm not myself. I'm not as easy-going.

Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

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'm not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it's after 5 A.M., I stay up.

You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.

I've gone days without sleeping.