Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.

I definitely like not working sometimes. It's so fun. I just love sleeping in. In America, everyone is driven to succeed and wake up and do something. But I don't care. I want to sleep in. I want to relax. I don't want to have to get up every day.

You gotta really enjoy off days.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.