Waking Quotations

The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

My mom didn't believe in putting chemicals in hair. But when I got to college, we didn't have A/C in our dorms freshman year. So after several days of waking up looking like a Chia Pet, I was like 'OK, I'm gonna get a perm.' And then my hair revolted and fell out. I was over that quick, fast and in a hurry.

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Start with a real breakfast; don't ever skip that. If you're waking up early for a run, make sure you drink at least a glass of water and put something healthy into your stomach before you go out the door.

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.

What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

I stay away from dairy and I drink almond milk now. And I've also found that eating breakfast, like waking up and actually having it, helps me stay way healthy.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.

We're mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted right now. The stress -- we had players waking up and throwing up.

Yahoo is very concerned about conversion right now. We do everything we can to trace conversion for our merchant. That means experimenting with things like one-page check-out or multi-page check out. The flexibility for customers to make that choice can change conversion. The design world is waking up to conversion.

Waking up this morning, my first thought was that they came back to beat us like they did last year. I was thinking about it all day. There was no way we were going to let them do it to us again.

Waking up every morning in the sunshine puts you in a happy frame of mind.

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

We were asleep. Our bats were cold but (Fischer) did a good job against us. We finally started waking up in the sixth and seventh innings but it was way too late in a seven-inning game.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

When you can't fall asleep at night or you keep waking up in the middle of the night, you have a low appetite, or increased crying for no reason, then you're showing signs that stress is getting out of control and it's to the point you need to reduce the stress in your life.

She was due during the game, ... I was watching the game, waking up with her.

Me and my wife put a family of five in a hotel seven or eight nights. It's kind of hard to imagine waking up one day and losing everything. They were sleeping on a floor in a relative's house. My wife, Judy, gave them some cash to go by some essentials. Hopefully they're on the road to recovery.

More companies are waking up to the fact that one of the most important touch points they have is when employees have contact with customers.

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

People waking up this morning, apart from that very large number of people who suffered grievously in the course of the conflict, I'm sure feel in their bones that we're all better off for this.

Nobody knows what it's like to sit here day in and day out, and night after night, and have to sleep ... anticipate your son waking up in the middle of the night and having a seizure. The next seizure might be the one that's going to send him out to the no man's land.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

I was still waking up six or seven hours before my tee time. I'm slowly getting back into it.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

I got sick of all the creams and lotions out there and waking up with a dirty pillow and even bigger pimples, ... It's exciting for me to see my baby getting out there.

I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

Basically, we spend every waking hour and every dime we make trying to be something we're not, ... Fake hair, fake teeth, fake tans, fake boobs.

I look forward to every midnight feeding, every 3 a.m. feeding. As much as people complain about waking up and staying up all night, I wouldn't change it for the world.

I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

I can't imagine waking up one morning and saying 'I don't work for Northwest Airlines anymore,'

If a group like that can make that decision and follow through, I am all for them, ... But I don't think most kids are on that plane of thought. Kids are kids. They want to be loved and cared for. They want to know someone is waking up thinking about them.

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'

If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He was always waking up early for his heath. He never missed one day.

He was at Hedgcock every waking moment. He was easy to find.

He was always in the gym every waking moment (practicing), ... I had to make sure he ate regularly.

He loves it, waking up at 4 in the morning, doing what he has to do, that's his life. You can take the boy off the farm, you just can't take the farm out of the boy.

He literally spent every waking hour walking around with those things in his hand, squeezing them. He was determined to improve.

Guys tell me they sleep on the road a lot easier and better than they do at home, ... At home, you end up waking at 7:00 in the morning because you're used to getting up early. On the road, you're not worried about sleeping in and missing batting practice. You're always conscious here of oversleeping. You don't want to wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy or dark outside. If it gets sunny early, you're jumping out of bed and it could be 6 o'clock.

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

I think the home meet will be good for this team. Our kids are going to be able to sleep in their own beds and not have to be worried about waking up at 6 a.m. to travel.