Congenial Work Quotes

#1. Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

Joseph Hertz

#2. There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.

John Burroughs

#3. 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.

John Burroughs

#4. The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Brian Reynolds

#5. Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from "the disease to please" - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

Beverly Engel

#6. Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

Frank Zappa

#7. Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Sanford Meisner

#8. There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Pat Conroy

#9. Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

Ian McDiarmid

#10. Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Kin Hubbard

#11. If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Tom Cruise

#12. In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#14. Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

John Piper

#15. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Norman Mailer

#16. There was one true thing. Madeleine. The relief was beautiful. He fell asleep imagining her hands in his hands, holding one another in the darkness.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#17. I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.

Urijah Faber

#18. Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

Don McLean