Trends Quotes - Page 19

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Swings, Needs, Regulation

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I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.

Elaine Equi

Philosophy, Believe, Phones

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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I know in fashion what's new is old and trends repeat but the 90's trends ala '90210' aren't exactly styles I'd want to wear today.

Tori Spelling

Fashion, Style, Want

Source: www.glamour.com

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Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

Zac Posen

Artist, Creative, Risk

"Zac Posen Interview by Sachin Bhola". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

Kristen Stewart

Brother, Asian, Different

Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

John W. Gardner

Thinking, Leader, Groups

JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Dmitry Medvedev

Russia, Energy, World

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Good food is a good trend.

Thomas Keller

Good Food

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In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans and soured investments are irrelevant to value; improving trends and future prospects are what matter, regardless of whether profits will have to be used to cover loan losses and equity shortfalls for years to come.

Seth Klarman

Loss, What Matters, Years

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I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

James Goodnight

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Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

Gunnar Myrdal

Country, Attitude, Parent

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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

Phyllis McGinley

Optimism, Troops, Optimist

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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Paul Hawken

Country, Thinking, Political

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The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

Darrell Huff

Honesty, Mean, Data

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Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

Li Peng

Country, Community, Political

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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Education, Strong, Men

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Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

Lubov Azria

Style, Skirts, Classic

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My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of
it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.

Shraddha Kapoor

Style, Favourite, Certain

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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Jesmyn Ward

Reading, Trying, Fiction

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I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

Nate Berkus

Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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Trends become more apparent as you step further away from the chart.

Ed Seykota

Steps

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Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

Ed Seykota

Exercise, Moments, Responding

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I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

Fred Saberhagen

Vampire, Way, Now And Then

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I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

Jeremy Grantham

Powerful, Data, Challenges

"Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table.

Cynthia Heimel

Funny, New York, Couple

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