Quotes About Trends

Depth-destroying behaviors such as immediate e-mail responses and an active social media presence are lauded, while avoidance of these trends generates suspicion.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they're not afraid of it.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

Mass television-viewing had some rather less desirable effects on Americans as well. Graphs for those years show a clear change of direction: Americans read fewer books, did less

When you visit those different sites and see the same story told from different perspectives, you really begin to see the trends emerge. - Scott Davis

there is something fundamentally different between a sale to an early adopter and a sale to the early majority, even

California is a bad influence.

lawyers' offices. This scales superlinearly with an exponent close to the canonical 1.15, meaning that there are systematically more lawyers per capita in larger cities.

History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.