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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• 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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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

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

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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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• Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

  Leo Burnett

  Creative, Sparks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Simple, Difficult

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Powerful, Blow, Fire

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

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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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• 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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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Nuts, Bridges

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

  Simon Hughes

  Men, Worry, Healthy

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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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• 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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