Trends Quotes - Page 6

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

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.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?