Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

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• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on…
• I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting…
• Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
• Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with…
• The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.
• We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
• Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.
• When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what…
• 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…
• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when…
• Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
• There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a…
• What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As…
• All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
• Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
• The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give…
• Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

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