Top 100 Trend Quotes
#1. There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
Iman
#2. I think to make your home as comfortable as possible is so important. There's something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.
Aerin Lauder
#3. Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
Li Peng
#5. The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.
Martin Rees
#6. As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.
Elaine A. Cannon
#7. The trend that should definitely die is following trends.
Kemp Muhl
#8. Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
Maya Beiser
#9. I'll admit it, the grunge trend doesn't really speak to me. I get why other people like it, but it's just not my style. Don't get me wrong, I love layering, but I like it when it is done with a little more polish and sophistication.
Nina Garcia
#10. Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
George Soros
#11. It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
Meg Whitman
#12. The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
Seth MacFarlane
#13. As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher
#14. In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.
Rain
#15. Don't fear uniqueness. Fear similarities and acceptance. Create a new trend by defining yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#17. An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.
Oscar Arias
#18. Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It'll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.
Jonathan Maberry
#19. Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#20. Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.
Corey Flintoff
#21. The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees
Veronika Skvortsova
#22. Inasmuch as the trend in society today is rapidly moving away from the values and principles the Lord has given us, we will almost certainly be called upon to defend that which we believe. Will we have the courage to do so?
Thomas S. Monson
#23. Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.
Jim Cramer
#24. Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within.
Nirmala Srivastava
#25. There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.
Jim Brown
#26. Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.
Fennel Hudson
#27. Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
George Soros
#28. What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years.
Mojib Latif
#29. It's important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.
Julie Klausner
#30. Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson
#31. For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
Mary McCarthy
#32. Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.
Kim Hyesoon
#33. I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.
Norbert Reithofer
#34. My big 'don't' would be wearing something just because someone told you it looks cool. I think a lot of people fall victim to that - of doing something that's a trend, but then you can tell if they don't own it or don't like it.
Brittany Snow
#35. What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.
Sri Aurobindo
#36. First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
Thomas E. Mann
#37. In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is not the way forward.
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
#38. The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.
Max Levchin
#39. Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.
Brian Molko
#40. A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
Philip Slater
#41. Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.
Kelly Cutrone
#42. I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
Daniel Petrie
#43. Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
Steven Pinker
#45. I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.
Clint Eastwood
#46. I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
Valentina Tereshkova
#47. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
George Soros
#48. It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
Jeff Zucker
#49. You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
Eric Rohmer
#50. Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.
Steven Millhauser
#51. Most people instinctively follow a dominant trend in an organization or community, without critical evaluation of its merits. The herd instinct is strong.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#52. To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.
Patrick Dixon
#53. When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live.
When you know that every truth you seek is available within you,
you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.
Alan Cohen
#54. I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement
Ned Vizzini
#55. I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.
Sam Altman
#56. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.
Hugh Panaro
#57. When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
George Soros
#58. In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.
Jerry Della Femina
#59. It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
Victoria Osteen
#60. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
Erwin McManus
#61. Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
India De Beaufort
#62. Planned parenthood in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.
Gunnar Myrdal
#63. Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.
Travis Bradberry
#64. If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.
Wendy Starland
#65. There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.
Rocco Landesman
#66. Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.
Howard Rheingold
#67. You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.
Dwight Howard
#68. One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.
Shakti Gawain
#69. It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
Wale
#70. Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask, 'What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?'
Mickey Drexler
#71. I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson
#72. It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.
Prabal Gurung
#73. The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.
Benjamin Graham
#74. In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.
Kevin B. Rollins
#75. (Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
Michael Pollan
#76. When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
Rachel Zoe
#77. The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew
#78. The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
Dylan Moran
#79. We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.
Kourtney Kardashian
#80. There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.
Robert Caro
#81. It was a worrying trend. Everybody else was deep into their own stories, and all the stories were woven together just beneath the surface into a web that included Plum. But what was Plum's story?
Lev Grossman
#82. In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
Mark Billingham
#83. Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and principles of this church, you may become even more peculiar in the eyes of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#84. I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.
Lee Strobel
#85. There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.
Grace Jones
#86. There are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife.
David Ogilvy
#87. Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.
Gil Blake
#88. We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought.
Pandora Poikilos
#89. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
Marc Andreesen
#90. Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.
John Carroll
#91. For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.
Ne-Yo
#92. In the field of marketing ... the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling ... of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.
Vance Packard
#93. I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#94. If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.
Orson Scott Card
#95. No matter how good a person may be at doing things , if he or she fails to keep pace with the modern trend he or she may become irrevelant
Osunsakin Adewale
#97. Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
Kristen Stewart
#98. I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.
Elizabeth Amisu
#99. If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.
Suzy Menkes
#100. Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.
J.S. Strange
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