Quotes About Attrition

#1. On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition - not to determine who was right, but who was left.

Stanley Weintraub

#2. If we abuse our go-to person and overtask them, we have to be willing to accept attrition because an overworked employee will end up leaving.

Nicholas Ripplinger

#3. But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Scott Walker

#4. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#5. My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.

Sascha Radetsky

#6. For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

Bryant McGill

#7. It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Julie Bowen

#8. When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Michael Arad

#9. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Edith Wharton

#10. People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth.

Joe Haldeman

#11. For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience
Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.

T. S. Eliot

#12. I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.

Howard Schultz

#13. The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

Yasser Arafat

#14. Not an attrition of memory, but great locked rooms in the mansion of his recollection. Not forgotten, any more than a locked room ceases to exist, but ... locked.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Dax Shepard

#16. The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

Will Durant

#18. Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

Brad Pitt

#19. It is Sunday. The weekend, that three-day festival of attrition, is done. Sunday is the day of purgation and redress; of tenderised brain cases and see-sawing stomachs and hollow pledges to never, ever get that twisted again.

Colin Barrett

#20. Against the U.S. strategy of attrition, the North Vietnamese pursued a strategy of "enervation" or protracted war. This meant tiring the enemy of his will to fight.

Robert Freeman

#21. Our dispassionate acceptance of attrition ... [can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#22. Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#23. We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

William Westmoreland

#24. Provide significant value to each subscriber on a regular basis. 2. Build a subscriber base and continually attract new subscribers to compensate for attrition. 3. Bill customers on a recurring basis. 4. Retain each subscriber as long as possible.

Josh Kaufman

#25. We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

Nathanael West

#26. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

Kate Forsyth

#27. In World War II, 35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat.

Anonymous

#28. War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

George Vecsey

#29. Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.

James Mikolajczyk

#30. Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

Allen West

#31. The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

Sylvester Stallone

#32. Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Jane Jacobs

#33. When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh.

John Edward Williams

#34. Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

John Gimlette

#35. I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.

Tom Sharpe

#36. Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start.

Nathacha Appanah

#37. Justice by Attrition turns courthouses like this giant complex on Schermerhorn Street into huge fun houses of unreasonableness and mindless punishment, where you can peek into just about any room and find someone absolutely beside himself with disbelief over what is happening to him.

Matt Taibbi

#38. Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.

Ryan Holiday

#39. The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Walter Scott

#40. Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#41. I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend's very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember.

S.G. Night