Trends Quotes - Page 18

• For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Believe, Dollars

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• If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.

  Tim Gunn

  If I Could, Ifs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.

  Jeff Fisher

  Design, Trying, Stills

  Source: justcreative.com

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• Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

  Les Brown

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Worry, Matter

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• Beauty type or hair styles constantly evolve through time. Hence, a woman shouldn't be reduced to the current trends.

  Maria Borges

  Hair, Style, Rough Times

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees

  Veronika Skvortsova

  Past, Government, Years

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Icons, Different

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• We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Humanity, Understanding

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Baby, Sex, Assessment

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

  Seimone Augustus

  Basketball, World, Want

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• Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

  Hodding Carter III

  Matter, Virtue, Mockery

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• America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Reading, Cities

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• The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Moving, Practice, Clothes

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• We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

  Stewart Udall

  Block, Average, Car

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• Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Innovation, Return

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Goal, Dollars

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• Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Trying, Together, Looks

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• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Powerful, Book

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Bucks

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I believe tattoos are a lifestyle not a fashion trend.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Tattoo, Fashion, Believe

  Source: imfromcleveland.com

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• The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Identity, Immigration

  "Devout Muslim Preaches His Love For America". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. October 6, 2015.

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• In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Saving, Employment

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• I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

  Loren Bouchard

  Thinking, Fields, Tone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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