All Tom Hodgkinson Quotes
- Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is… Alongside
- 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… Apparent
- Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or… All
- By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the U.K. has… Bank
- 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.… Bend
- Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make… Activity
- Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a… Beings
- I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of… All
- I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was… Allowed
- I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling… Absurd
- I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer… Auto
- In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply… All
- Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… Absolutely
- It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought… Art
- Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear… All
- Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed.… Aimed
- My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions… Demand
- Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But… Arguably
- The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… Churchill
- The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the… Billion