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 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. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden. Tom Hodgkinson garden trying moving 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 our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse. Tom Hodgkinson boss unemployment attitude Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world. Tom Hodgkinson think animal long world I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. Tom Hodgkinson through streets poet love 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 off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week. Tom Hodgkinson you work time life You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against. Tom Hodgkinson become you serious parent
