Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

A loafer always has the correct time.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

Free time is the enemy of progress

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Work hard, play hard.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.