Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.
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Related People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refre... ANDREW WEIL If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need t... ANDREW WEIL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessn... BRAM STOKER A good cure for insomnia is to get plenty of sleep. W. C. FIELDS I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. EMILIE AUTUMN The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. W. C. FIELDS The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. W.C. FIELDS god should of made a seperate sleep life, so that no matter how busy your life gets, you still get t... CADIR LAMPE Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY To die, to sleep -- To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub, For in that sleep of dea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath w... IRVIN D. YALOM Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep... CHARLES M. SCHULZ I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that ... SEAN COMBS Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep... GENE WOLFE Some of our kids are literally sleep-walking through life, with some potentially serious consequence... RICHARD MILLMAN His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ARTHUR BAER Insomnia can make it difficult t sleep. TERENCE T. GORSKI When you weep silently in the dark with nobody to shoulder your tears, you only find comfort in slee... MARCO OSCAR OZ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according ... MAURICE BLANCHOT I haven't slept enough yet. I get about seven hours of sleep a night, and Friday through Sunday I ha... SONNY BRIGGANCE Sleep has been provided by nature to do the body's healing work, and it takes seven or eight hou... SUZANNE SOMERS His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ARTHUR BAER We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us s... BRUCE ALLEN We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives ... BRUCE ALLEN Studies have shown that you need seven to eight hours of sleep per night for maximum health. MELANIE KRAUTHOFF Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and wh... DR. MEIR KRYGER He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to hims... ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Only two things don't let someone sleep whole night, Insomnia and Love; and I'm not sure about the i... SYED FAIZAN ALI SHAH Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us. JULIO CORTáZAR It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee... JERRY SPINELLI All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrappe... D.H. LAWRENCE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Couples who struggle with sleep apnea have a high divorce rate. DR. ROSALIND CARTWRIGHT I usually sleep just a few hours a night. JACKSON RATHBONE You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for freeYou won't get wiseWith the sleep s... NEIL PEART (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves di... SARA DONATI We have to continue to educate doctors-in-training, and we should help them develop sleep risk-manag... JUDITH OWENS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I completely agree that a sound sleep is the best beauty product. Sound sleep, one of the most impor... SHRADDHA KAPOOR Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. T. BOONE PICKENS Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. BOONE PICKENS For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must gi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life VOLTAIRE Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about i... JENNY LEWIS How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
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