Tom Hodgkinson Quotes
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.
Hodgkinson, Tom. How to Be Idle. Hamish Hamilton, 2004.
She had a concept and a plan whereby people in their late teens and trenties would work very hard--long days rather than shorten the work day. But thereafter, if they wished, they would recieve a basic living and would not have to work thereafter. For much work sustained concentration over long hours is not only necessary but is preferred by many of the workers--scientists, scholars, entrapraneurs, computer programmers, are just a few. This is what many very successful people have been choosing--they just change careers. Some ironically dpend as many hours at the second and third career as the first.
Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer, and the editor of The Idler, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. The Idler was originally a series of essays written by Dr Johnson from 1758 to 1760.
