Trends Quotes - Page 8

• Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

  George Soros

  Volatility, Term, Diminish

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.170, John Wiley & Sons

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• Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Technology, Ideas, Globalization

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• Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

  Kirk Hammett

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Guitar World, March 1992.

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• Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

  Phil Jones

  Years, Lines, Worried

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• We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

  George W. Bush

  Past, Years, Degrees

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• Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

  Richard Hastings

  Halloween, Slam, Spending

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• Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.

  Marq de Villiers

  Children, Drinking, Reality

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• We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed

  Fatih Birol

  Years, Data, Track

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• Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

  Brad Goreski

  Fashion, Color, Design

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• Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz?
  And cell phones and beepers was the new trends?
  When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

  Biz Markie

  Rap, Phones, Cells

  Song: Turn Back the Hands of Time, Album: Weekend Warrior, 2003

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• Politicians cannot alter trends.

  Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson

  Politician

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• I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Wind, Pieces

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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• There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments. In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man's productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Taken, Struggle, Men

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• Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

  Bill Gates

  Digital, Company, Emerging

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• At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

  Adam Schiff

  Uc Berkeley, Texas, Ucla

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• Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Art, Stupid, Taken

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• All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

  Ian Botham

  People, Ashes, Want

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• Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you

  Bill Walsh

  Games, Competition, Innovation

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• People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Smart, People

  "Kanye West has acquired some 'Kim K. skills'" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

  Big Sean

  Dynasty, Remember, Wanted

  "Chain Reaction: Big Sean's Lessons in Rapper Jewelry". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. April 10, 2012.

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• One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

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• I know people say 'what about when you're old and you're covered in tattoos?' - so what. Anyway, in time to come everyone will have them and it will be all the trend, won't it? 'Cuz you don't know how the times are gonna change.

  Cher Lloyd

  Tattoo, People, Cuz

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• I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.

  Cher Lloyd

  Believe, Dresses, Able

  "17 Minutes With Cher Lloyd". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Examination, Medical, Study

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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