Friction Quotes
126 quotes by 116 authors
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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
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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…
— Benjamin Carson
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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…
— Saul Alinsky
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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
— John Abizaid
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.
— Swami Vivekananda
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In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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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
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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 no friction in…
— Paul Bowles
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Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't…
— Stanley Kunitz
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The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
— Bill Gates
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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
— C.S. Lewis
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
— Bruce Greenwood
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I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's…
— Cristie Kerr
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The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience…
— Bridget Riley
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think…
— Akira Kurosawa
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The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
— Michael Eisner
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Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into…
— Mark Slouka
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That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.
— Ryan Reynolds
Who Wrote These Friction Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 126 Friction Quotes, led by these top contributors: