Trends Quotes - Page 17

• People have said there is an integrity about me, and I think there is. I don't try to follow a trend. I have my own little path.

  Sarah Brightman

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Sarah Brightman from Mar 04, 2013

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• Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Marriage, Bears, Footprint

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• I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Thinking, Style, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Years, Growth, Development

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• The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.

  Keith Devlin

  Art, Effort, Levels

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• Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

  Zac Posen

  Fashion, Style, Elegance

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• I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Years, Trying, Want

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• My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

  Lela Rose

  Mother, Clothes, Taught

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• There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Poetry, Raw Materials, Ruins

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• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Creativity, Artist, Musician

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• I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.

  Tinie Tempah

  Nike, Fashion, Nice

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• Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Criticism, Would Be, Literature

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• What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. The world is a complex an many-sided thing.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Special, World, Branches

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.

  George M. Humphrey

  War, Thinking, Events

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• To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Change, Mother, Children

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

  Grant Achatz

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

  Gavin Schmidt

  Change, Years, Data

  "Global warming made 2014 a record hot year - in animated graphics" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

  Kristoffer Polaha

  Math, Tv Shows, Magic

  "Kris Polaha Goes Intergalactic to Make Life Unexpected a Hit". www.eonline.com. September 21, 2010.

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• The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Systematic, Waste, Habit

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Powerful, Dell, Enterprise

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• I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

  Vera Wang

  Thinking, Color, Fabric

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• We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

  Jared Bernstein

  Slumps, Wages, Midst

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• The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

  Julian Simon

  Size, Reason Why, Population

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• You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.

  Will Barnet

  Running, Believe, Long

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• The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Running, Long

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