Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

I always try to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. It's the best thing I can do for my body.

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

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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

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.

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.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

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.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

Sleeping is the height of genius

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

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 love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don't need sleep. I think they're called 'successful.

I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

I'm a very good sleeper.

I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.

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