Quotes About Trends

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

best businesses to own are those in which end markets are growing rather than shrinking. Absent

De Waal concluded that rather than changing the social relationships, the fights tended to reflect the changes that had already taken place.

Demography, not democracy, will be the most critical factor for security and growth in the 21st century

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

Starting in 1964, average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests went steadily down, and per student spending went steadily up.33

In its broadest sense, the scandal of Watergate arose from the tumultuous and destabilizing trends of the 1960s, especially the war in Vietnam and the deviousness and power-grabbing associated with the rise of an imperial presidency.2

One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

I learnt from Mrs. Tickars's young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were.

Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed to the exclusion of others. There are continuities and discontinuities in trends and arguments, areas of common ground and major points of dispute.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

Frequently, you'll look at a business having fabulous results. And the question is, How long can this continue?' Well, there's only one way I know to answer that. And that's to think about why the results are occurring now—and then to figure out the forces that could cause those results to stop occurring.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

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.

Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010 after passage, it was unpopular by double-digit margins.

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have several ones after.

The rising levels of production and content are prompting producers to take up unusual subjects.

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.