Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
If 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
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists… — Tom Corson Copy Share Image
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these… — Max Weber 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
All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. — Timothy Noah 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
At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction… I wish to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way… — Henry Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Consider the impasse of a one God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
![“I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/670/don-hertzfeldt-16260_animator_i-have-friends-and-illustrators-who-can_926709.jpg)
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