Friction Quotes

• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Meaningful

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  Frances E. Willard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Momentum

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Tree, Shade

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• Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

  Leo Burnett

  Creative, Sparks

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  Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Movement, Resistance

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.30, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

  Arnold Bennett

  Communication, Voice, Tone

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• To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, People, Perception

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.114, Shambhala

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Worry, Revolution

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Progress, Literature, Heat

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

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• The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Business, Organization

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.172, Routledge

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• Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Machines, Life Is, Civil Disobedience

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  Salman Rushdie

  Free Society

  "Joseph Anton: A Memoir". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 2012.

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• One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Gliding, Might

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 10, 1799.

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Worry, Stressed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Media, Class

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• The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

  Eva Burrows

  Family, Love Life, Love Is

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• With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Drama, Promise, Environment

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• I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

  Anne Fadiman

  Weather, Interesting, Borders

  "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down". Book by Anne Fadiman, 2012.

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• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  Yehuda Berg

  War, Color, Practice

  "The Power of Words" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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