- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congenial Quotes
On finding the easy, pleasant way through.
One quote here ties happiness directly to finding a "congenial monotony," a steady routine rather than constant excitement. Another speaker questions whether a role feels congenial to them, weighing that against a sense of calling.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020