John Wozniak Quotes

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

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

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.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you sleeping?' because they know my brain will not shut down.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

I have no trouble sleeping.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' 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.

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way.