All 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
- All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. All
- Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion. Children
- Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. Beauty
- Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the… Computer
- Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work? Choosing
- Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens. Busy
- I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks. Airport
- I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic! Aspire
- In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten. Age
- Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off? Anywhere
- My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their… Ale
- One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms? Aspect
- Travelling fills me with dread. Dread
- When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. Car
- 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… Actually Gets
- 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… Becoming
- Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this… Behind
- 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… Day
- To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged… Affair