Quotes About Trends

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

We humans, it appears, are prone to overconfidence, herding behavior, unwarranted extrapolation of recent trends, and contagious waves of wishful thinking—all key ingredients of bubbles.

People have been becoming more traditionally built over recent years," he had pointed out.

Everybody kissed one another these days; kisses meant nothing.

The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.

Who even *heard* of gluten till a few years ago?

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Secularism refers to the idea, popular for the last few centuries, that it is in fact possible for nations to be religiously neutral.

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

we routinely explain social trends in terms of what society "is ready for." But the only way we know society is ready for something is because it happened. Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened."5

Before the revival began, a scant one in ten Americans were church members; by the time it ended, that ratio had risen to eight in ten.

every age has its folly

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

From 1900 to 1960, America's white population was almost unchanged at around 90%. It is now teetering around 60%. American whites are expected to reach official minority status sometime around 2040. It is estimated that in 1950, whites were around 28% of the global population. This quotient will dip below 10% by 2060.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

For three straight years—1972, 1973, and 1974—bicycles outsold cars in the United States.

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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.