Tom Hodgkinson

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

— Tom Hodgkinson

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

— Tom Hodgkinson

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

— Tom Hodgkinson

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.

— Tom Hodgkinson

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

— Tom Hodgkinson

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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

— Tom Hodgkinson

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work…

— Tom Hodgkinson

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

— Tom Hodgkinson

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try…

— Tom Hodgkinson

When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

— Tom Hodgkinson

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time…

— Tom Hodgkinson

If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer…

— Tom Hodgkinson

When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on,…

— Tom Hodgkinson

On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Winston Churchill, who abhorred laziness in other people, himself took a nap every afternoon. He defended his afternoon doze in practical terms…

— Tom Hodgkinson

There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

— Tom Hodgkinson

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per…

— Tom Hodgkinson

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a…

— Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy,…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

— Tom Hodgkinson

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes…

— Tom Hodgkinson

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of…

— Tom Hodgkinson