Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

• The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Art, Maturity

  47 Copiar cita

• In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Giving, Trying, World

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

  38 Copiar cita

• 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 process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

  18 Copiar cita

• We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Order, Trying, Bores

  6 Copiar cita

• Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Simple, Naps, Benefits

  "Live lazy, live long - look at Britain's oldest man", por Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. 5 de noviembre de 2012.

  7 Copiar cita

• Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Becoming, Life Is, Staring

  4 Copiar cita

• In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Ill Health, Anxiety, Debt

  Tom Hodgkinson (2013). “How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto”, p.11, Harper Collins

  8 Copiar cita

• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Guilt, Way, Persons

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

  10 Copiar cita

• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Hombres, Pensar, Ser

  12 Copiar cita

• 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 latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

  9 Copiar cita

• We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Ideas, Giving, Levels

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

  7 Copiar cita

• In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Song, Lying, Idlers

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

  7 Copiar cita

• The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Government

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

  9 Copiar cita

• Pequeñas cosas como hacer ropa, hornear pan, cocinar, incluso cosas inútiles como observar pájaros, dibujar flores, tocar la guitarra en casa... ese tipo de tiempo ya no existe. ¿Y el tiempo que tenemos? Estamos tan agotados que queremos dejarnos absorber por el mundo de evasión de la televisión. Hablo por experiencia; no estoy por encima de todo esto.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Home, Guitar

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

  7 Copiar cita

• 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

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

  4 Copiar cita

• 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

  4 Copiar cita

• Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cities, Ideas, Watches

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

  16 Copiar cita

• Para mí no hay imagen más deprimente que la de un niño de cinco años mirando fijamente una pantalla, sin sonreír, con el ratón en la mano. Además de las terribles consecuencias que esta exposición prolongada a las pantallas tiene en sus cerebros, los juegos de ordenador tienden a ser asuntos solitarios y producen pocas risas.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Laughter, Sight

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

  4 Copiar cita

• Creo que es mejor evitar a los gurús de la gestión en general. Con demasiada frecuencia reducen la vida laboral a una lista de normas que hay que cumplir. Se persiguen objetivos. Metas a las que dar patadas. Entonces te saltas las normas o las olvidas y, de repente, empiezas a machacarte.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

  4 Copiar cita

• Hoy en día parecemos más ligados a nuestros jefes que nunca. Incluso identificamos nuestro yo con el trabajo que hacemos: "¿A qué te dedicas?" es la primera pregunta que nos hacemos en las fiestas, como si un cargo pudiera expresar una verdad fundamental sobre nuestra personalidad.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Party, Self

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

  4 Copiar cita

• 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 to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Phones, Opposites, Office

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

  4 Copiar cita

• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nursing, Creative, Sitting

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

  4 Copiar cita

• 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

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.68, Penguin UK

  7 Copiar cita

• 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 car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Space, Car, Important

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

  4 Copiar cita

• Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Opposites, People, Pay

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Dan Kieran

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Lenore Skenazy

Samuel Johnson

Bertrand Russell

Jay Griffiths

Carl Honore

David Hockney