Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

American Businessman

Mindy Grossman

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.

American Businesswoman

James E. Faust

I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

American Clergyman

Stephanie Coontz

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

American Author

John Frankenheimer

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

American Director

Patrick Leahy

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

American Politician

Zephyr Teachout

It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be eroded by big money.

American Lawyer

John F. Kennedy

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

American President

Brene Brown

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Mike Pence

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

American Vice President

Refers to actual wear on tangible objects, like land.

Physical Change

Describes a gradual change, not happening overnight.

Slow Process

Often used with weather or environmental elements causing the damage.

Natural Forces

Emphasizes a subtle, often unnoticed weakening over time.

Gradual Impact

Can affect feelings or relationships, not just physical objects.

Emotional Effect

Used metaphorically to discuss non-tangible concepts, like power.

Metaphoric Use

 and form rain or snow. As that falls, it wears down the landscape, dissolving rocks or breaking them down in a process known as weathering. Water moving downhill carries the weathered material and erodes the landscape, carving out deep valleys and jagged peaks.

Why is Mount Everest so...

 To hand that trust to your employees to do whatever they think is right makes the employees feel great. And this is why they're known for delivering some of the best service in the world. Idea number fairness. The thing that erodes trust in an organization

This is what makes...

 The surrounding land has begun to be deforested, causing the riverbank to erode. Instead, she journeys upstream and settles in a clear, deep pool sheltered by a river red gum tree. Suddenly, a rustle flushes birds from the undergrowth and a fox appears.

A year in the life of...

 For example, research shows that asking someone about suicidal thoughts actually reduces their suicide risk. Open conversations about mental illness help erode stigma and make it easier for people to ask for help. And the more patients seek treatment,

What is depression? -...

 literacy, and even democratic freedoms uncommon for the time. But nothing lasts forever. Fratricidal disputes over succession began to erode central power as increasingly independent cities ruled by rival princes vied for control.

Where did Russia come...

 your voice to take care of the blue part of planet dearth and make it less than that make it rock make it the vibrant system that it was before we started to erode the natural systems to the point

Taking care of the ocean...

 Eating disorders can provoke a powerful sense of powerlessness, but education for individuals, families, and communities helps erode the stigma and improve access to treatment.

Why are eating disorders...

 or even Alzheimer's disease were not sufficiently disquieting, we have since discovered that a lack of sleep will even erode the very fabric of biological life itself,

Sleep is your superpower...

 It's what's brought me here. To this cracked, eroded landscape. Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters,

How the Mojave Desert...

 associated with schizophrenia. That’s why education— for patients, their families, and their communities— helps erode the stigma and improves access to treatment.

Erode

To slowly destroy or weaken something over a period of time.

Often appears as...

To gradually reduce or destroy something, like respect or power.

Often appears as...

Physical Change

Slow Process

Natural Forces

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