Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

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.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public.

People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked to numerous forms of cancer - bowel, prostate, breast cancer.

What I do notice is, man, I sleep hard. When my head hits the pillow at night, it feels like five o'clock rolls around real quick.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

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.

In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

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

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

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.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

I am serious about my sleep.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.