Top 50 Friction Quotes

Every place in the world where there are two peoples – two religions, two languages – there is friction and conflict.

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.

In Quebec, as women were getting more power, there were the men who agreed with that and the men who were afraid. I think most men are willing to share power with women, but there’s fear. Every time you change something, there’s a friction.

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There’s no friction. There’s just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

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

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don’t allow data to flow seamlessly and they don’t integrate, it’s going to become a point of friction. It’s going to prevent the small business from being successful.

I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don’t have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.

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.

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

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.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

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

Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

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.

Like most MPs, I campaigned and voted to remain in the EU. I was concerned that extricating ourselves from a relationship built up over 40 years would be complex and challenging and that the economic cost of increasing friction in our trade with the EU would be high.

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.

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.

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

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

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

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

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

There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren’t possible before.

Joseph Zawinul does overkill, and his technological overkill sucks, but there’s no friction between us; I just say, ‘Look,’ and that’s it. Do you have any idea how much music I learned from him?

I prefer to create friction. Because if you’re not pushing buttons, you’re just making something pleasant; it’s probably been done before, and it’s not making anyone feel anything.

Whether Amazon is good at making and sustaining an entertainment business remains to be seen. But they certainly are 100% focused every day on optimizing the consumer experience and reducing friction.

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

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

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it’d really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China – from Chinese banks – whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we’re going to have to face.

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

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs – these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience – from planning to staying and beyond – even easier with technology.

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.

As humans our hangups seem to shape our interaction with the world around us. They are often the source of our intolerance and friction with people who think differently than us, and even the reason we build walls between us and the people close to us.

All three girls in ‘Housefull 3,’ Jacqueline Fernandez, Lisa Haydon and Nargis, got along well. Usually when there is more than one heroine there is some friction. Not this time.

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

When I speak of drama, I’m really referring to just ‘desperately trying not to be ordinary’. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

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

Finn doesn’t have as much respect for Han’s legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other’s backs.

There’s a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can’t afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in – particularly for the English.

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.

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

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?

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application’s use case.