William Gibson Quotes

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

Sleeping is the height of genius

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

If I don't have a schedule in front of me, I do enjoy sleeping. It's important for your body!

To sleep is an act of faith.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

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.

We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.

I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it.

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

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.