Top Erosion Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Erosion quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Twyla Tharp
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
- Twyla Tharp
Collection: Erosion
Image of Robert Smithson
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
- Robert Smithson
Collection: Erosion
Image of Howard Ruff
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.
- Howard Ruff
Collection: Erosion
Image of Evgeny Morozov
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
- Evgeny Morozov
Collection: Erosion
Image of Richard Trumka
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.
- Richard Trumka
Collection: Erosion
Image of Edward Heath
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
- Edward Heath
Collection: Erosion
Image of George Gaylord Simpson
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.
- George Gaylord Simpson
Collection: Erosion
Image of Elizabeth Drew
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.
- Elizabeth Drew
Collection: Erosion
Image of Craig Newmark
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
- Craig Newmark
Collection: Erosion
Image of Richard Holloway
There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.
- Richard Holloway
Collection: Erosion
Image of David Korten
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.
- David Korten
Collection: Erosion
Image of Charles Kellogg
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
- Charles Kellogg
Collection: Erosion
Image of Charles Kellogg
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil
- Charles Kellogg
Collection: Erosion
Image of Sara Sheridan
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
- Sara Sheridan
Collection: Erosion
Image of Frank Prochaska
Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.
- Frank Prochaska
Collection: Erosion
Image of Joseph Sobran
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
- Joseph Sobran
Collection: Erosion
Image of Harold S. Kushner
Why bad things happen to good people
- Harold S. Kushner
Collection: Erosion
Image of Wendell Berry
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Erosion
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Erosion
Image of George Saunders
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.
- George Saunders
Collection: Erosion
Image of Ralph Nader
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
- Ralph Nader
Collection: Erosion
Image of Robert McKee
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.
- Robert McKee
Collection: Erosion
Image of Jane Jacobs
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?
- Jane Jacobs
Collection: Erosion
Image of Dave Barry
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Erosion