Top Friction Quotes
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
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances E. Willard
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid
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.
Saul Alinsky
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
James Cash Penney
All Friction Quotes
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 
58% of people like this quote
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances E. Willard 
53% of people like this quote
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
John Abizaid 
52% of people like this quote
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.
Saul Alinsky 
51% of people like this quote
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
James Cash Penney 
51% of people like this quote
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg 
50% of people like this quote
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
Bill Bruford 
49% of people like this quote
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.
Afrika Bambaataa 
49% of people like this quote
At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.
Ernest Thompson Seton 
48% of people like this quote
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
Bruce Greenwood 
47% of people like this quote

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Bruce Greenwood
Hermann von Helmholtz
Afrika Bambaataa
Ernest Thompson Seton
George Eliot
Frances E. Willard
Bill Bruford