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

  Arnold Bennett

  Communication, Voice, Tone

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

  Eva Burrows

  Family, Love Life, Love Is

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• Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Motivational, Hard Work, Needs

  "What Does A Strong Life Look Like?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Creativity, Creative

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• 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.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Easter, Color, People

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• 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.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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