The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure,… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings. — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.” — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from… — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and “politics.”… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that… — Simon Hughes Copy Share Image
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. To suddenly understand how much of a burden you are to another person, how much someone else might wish to… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image