There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. Tom Hodgkinson More Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson More Quotes From Tom Hodgkinson What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community. Tom Hodgkinson community real found The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today. Tom Hodgkinson machines today mean Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. Tom Hodgkinson drinking mind people I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes. Tom Hodgkinson hours quality song ...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life. Tom Hodgkinson enjoy-life soul men Life is about recapturing lost freedoms. Tom Hodgkinson life-is lost Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside. Tom Hodgkinson summer math winter We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside. Tom Hodgkinson obsessed lines numbers We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers. Tom Hodgkinson lunch doe needs 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 flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness. Tom Hodgkinson flower order people Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need. Tom Hodgkinson be-good people needs Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. Tom Hodgkinson idle efficient The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams." Tom Hodgkinson dream want thinking Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap. Tom Hodgkinson benefits simple naps 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 happens. Tom Hodgkinson rainbow weed inspiration 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 your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in. Tom Hodgkinson boredom office long Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life. Tom Hodgkinson age attitude ideas 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 job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about. Tom Hodgkinson learning hard-work jobs Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen. Tom Hodgkinson staring becoming life-is 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 loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday. Tom Hodgkinson holiday inspirational order
