Lack Of Sleep Quotes

• Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

  Dov Davidoff

  Moving, Sleep, Thinking

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

  Sandra Lee

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

  Marc Andreessen

  Sleep, Two, Emotion

  "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.

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• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Lying, Sleep

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• You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

  Mark Pincus

  Sleep, People, Personality

  "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Macbeth Theme

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

  Bernard Lagat

  Mother, Sleep, Blessing

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• I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

  Bill Gates

  Sleep, Thinking, Challenges

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Insomnia, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sleep, Eye, Body

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• I would say a lack of sleep is a cause for feeling not so beautiful. On those days, I try to drink lots of water and put on the biggest sunglasses I can find.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Beautiful, Sleep, Water

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• Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.

  Vera Nazarian

  Good Morning, Sleep, Adventure

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• In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Insomnia, Patient

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stupid, Sleep, Complaining

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.272, Penguin

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• At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated.

  Darynda Jones

  Lying, Fall, Sleep

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Stress, Sleep, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.

  Ted Trueblood

  Children, Sleep, Frustration

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