All Tom Hodgkinson Quotes
- 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
- 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