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Work Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson
- 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…
- Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
- Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
- 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…
- 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…
- Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make…
- 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…
- 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…
- We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the…
- A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that…
- Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good…
- What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
- We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put…
- Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon…
- If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or…
- If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson