The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
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.
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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.
Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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.
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.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
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