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Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don’t work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it’s easier to start doing what you want to do Picture Quote #1

Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do Picture Quote #1

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work Picture Quote #1

I’ve never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don’t understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday Picture Quote #1

We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures Picture Quote #1

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word ‘passionate’ in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans Picture Quote #1

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If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That’s because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends Picture Quote #1

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: Time is money. He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn’t money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life Picture Quote #1

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside Picture Quote #1

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called ‘real world’ of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets Picture Quote #1

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler’s break. Travel should not be hard work Picture Quote #1

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We’re so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I’m speaking from experience; I’m not above all this Picture Quote #1

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Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need Picture Quote #1

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps Picture Quote #1

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient Picture Quote #1

Travelling fills me with dread Picture Quote #1

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks Picture Quote #1

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m Picture Quote #1

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The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together Picture Quote #1

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen Picture Quote #1

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap Picture Quote #1

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure Picture Quote #1

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life Picture Quote #1

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden Picture Quote #1

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The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free Picture Quote #1

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice Picture Quote #1

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather Picture Quote #1

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation Picture Quote #1

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance Picture Quote #1

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder Picture Quote #1

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Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don’t work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it’s easier to start doing what you want to do. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) I’ve never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don’t understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word ‘passionate’ in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That’s because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: Time is money. He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn’t money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called ‘real world’ of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler’s break. Travel should not be hard work. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We’re so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I’m speaking from experience; I’m not above all this. (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Travelling fills me with dread (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes) When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder (Tom Hodgkinson Quotes)

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