We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Congenial Quotes from Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, John Ortberg, James Stephens, John Diamond, Wilfred Owen. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
I don’t have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else’s lap doesn’t just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
Most of the time, I’m not scared. I get on with life, not because I’m a fatalist, but because that’s the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I’m not conscious of dealing with anything.
I don’t ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in – Italy, France, Manhattan – but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial – but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials – they’re not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
New York was very congenial to me when I was young, like most people. I met my comrades in arms and partied hard. It’s the way it should be, and then you get sick of it.
The true doctrine is that labor – systematic, effective, congenial labor – is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.
