Matthew Walker Quotes

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

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Not Knowing

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Tapes

• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  

  Bocafloja
  • Community
  • Read
  • Speech

• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Perspective

• The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

  

  William Fleming
  • Individual
  • Perfection
  • Species

• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

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

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Suffering