Fads Quotes - Page 6

• Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Long, Tolerance

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

  Howard Rheingold

  Passing Away, May, Flash

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• Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Choices, Forever, Google

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• Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

  Connie Willis

  Eye, Thinking, Bread Pudding

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.119, Spectra

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• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

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• It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

  Douglas Carswell

  Thinking, Justice, Ministry

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• Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.

  Bill Brandt

  Sports, Photography, Matter

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• Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

  Demetri Martin

  Vampire, Make Sense, Dies

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2010

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• A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."

  Charlize Theron

  Stars, Long, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  Marc Andreessen

  Numbers, Trends, Behavior

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

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• I believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Believe, Ideas, Forever

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Live Life, Needs, World

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• I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Should Have, Meditation

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.

  Haile Gerima

  Successful, Important, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Division

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

  Bill Brandt

  Photographer, Judgment, Should

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.

  Kurt Eichenwald

  Real, Bitcoin, Digital

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• If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

  Barry Commoner

  Lasts, Ifs, Environmentalism

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• Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

  Paul Samuelson

  Wisdom, Income, Analysis

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• You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

  Connie Willis

  Thinking, People, Secret

  Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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• Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

  Connie Willis

  Race, Barbie, Popularity

  Connie Willis (1997). “Bellwether”, Spectra

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• Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Couple, Giving, Car

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• The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

  Meher Baba

  Expression, People, Isms

  "Discourses, Volume I". Book by Meher Baba, 1967.

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• Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.

  Conrad Black

  Corporate, Zealot, Governance

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

  Kathleen Madigan

  Rocks, People, Waiting

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