Top 222 Friction Quotes & Sayings

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?

We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out. Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

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.

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. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

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

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.

All polishing is done by friction.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

Freelancers generally want as friction-free an engagement as possible.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

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

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

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.

There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

To generate positive creative friction, you need people who'll tell you 'No.'

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

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

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

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

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.