Falling Quote by Matthew Walker

“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.”

— Matthew Walker

You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if…

— Matthew Walker

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII”

— Matthew Walker

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science,…

— Matthew Walker

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

— Matthew Walker

The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.

— Matthew Walker

Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the…

— Matthew Walker

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

— Matthew Walker

If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

— Matthew Walker

Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

— Matthew Walker

If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more…

— Matthew Walker

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep…

— Matthew Walker