Matthew Walker Quotes

The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Done
  • Now
  • Products

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Successful

• Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • History
  • Victory
  • Conflict

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.

  

  Patanjali

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Up
  • Night
  • Deep

• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  

  Livy
  • Truth
  • Friendships

• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla Maples, Trump's second wife, she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet gestures toward own chest, but time will tell...

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Words
  • Player

• We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • House
  • Earth
  • Authority

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Humanity

• If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • People
  • Live
  • Sleep

• The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep