Tom Hodgkinson Quotes - Page 4

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• Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Children, Hate, Passion

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Zuckerberg, Ongoing, World

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dad, Teenager, Ipads

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Idlers, Poet, Ifs

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• 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

  Attitude, Boss, Unemployment

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Enjoy, Making A Living

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Holiday, Order

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• 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 own games.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Running, Kids, Games

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

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  Nice, Shoes, Coworker

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

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  Idle, Efficient

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• In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Simple, Age, Getting What You Want

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• 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!

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Lazy, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Numbers, Lines, Obsessed

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Life Is, Lost

  Tom Hodgkinson (2013). “The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

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  Airports, Checks, Humiliation

  "Tom Hodgkinson: Why modern travel fills me with horror". www.independent.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Weed, Inspiration, Rainbow

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.

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  Pain, Garden, Self

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• The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.

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  Running, Political, Different

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Country, Hard Work, Innovation

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being super good at one tiny thing, to be kind of average at lots of things. It might mean that you have a more kind of enjoyable, complete life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nice, Mean, Writing

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• 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

  Attitude, Ideas, Age

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• 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, Thinking, Want

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• 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

  Real, Community, Found

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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