“The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.” FactsRunningCertainPrinciplesAmountInvolvedUniversalResponsibleImpactFlyingFlightDestroyedCyclesSwimmingCoincidenceIllustrationFrictionVerticalHorizontalOptimalBalancing ActProportionality Author:Adrian Bejan
“To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble” KnowsMenWorldDoeWarStatesWorryPressureNobleComplainingWar Of The WorldsCowardKnow MePolishFrictionUnder PressureSiegeSplendour Author:Saint Augustine
“What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.” PersonsIndividualGroupsSubjectsPrejudiceLaysRemarkableAccordFriction Author:Napoleon Hill
“It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.” MindTwoSpiritualSexSecretFireTraditionComplexesInventionSymbolsSubstanceCreedsFriction Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“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.” IfsWantRealCausesSpaceEntrepreneurCreatorFriction Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.” LiteratureProgressHeatRepetitionFriction Book:The Mill on the Floss Source: The Mill on the Floss
“I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.” ThinkingWayUsePainEnemyGood ThingsGuitarNoiseEaseTensionOur SocietyBad ThingsViolinFriction Author:Jon Foreman
“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.” PeopleBlackCommonOne ThingColorWestEastOur FamilyEasterLatinoFriction Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.” PeopleDoeReasonSocialTroubleSocietyBearsReason WhySensibleConventionsLeisureConventionalFrictionLeisure TimeConventionality Author:George Bernard Shaw
“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.” ThinkingNeedsGivingMayUseBodyScienceTermKnownFirePhilosopherExperimentsCeaseInstantPlusSpheresTubesElectricalFrictionMinusNomenclature Author:Benjamin Franklin
“A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.” PeopleStatesEasyDifficultUnitedNumbersPayAcceptingUnited StatesCardsPlasticFriction Author:Jack Dorsey
“Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.” Life IsVoiceCommunicationPercentToneDaily LifeNinetyFriction Author:Arnold Bennett
“It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.” WarSpeakLanguageLeaderPracticeColorHatredSkinsPreferenceOur WordsFrictionDisparity Author:Yehuda Berg
“Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.” ChallengesGenerationsCommunicateSettingSettingsMisunderstandingFriction Author:Raymond Arroyo
“Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.” NationsMilitaryCampaignsOperationsContributingCoalitionsTidyFrictionPrismsMilitary Operations Author:Mike Jackson
“Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.” WayWritingFightingStrongEmotionArmySoldierFriction Author:Etgar Keret