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.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
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.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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.
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.
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