Trends Quotes

“In my time, love often followed trends, yet greater love grows through it all.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded”
― Yogi Berra

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It takes just one car-free idol; one mass trend; to set Earth's healing in motion.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Twitter provides us with a wonderful platform to discuss/confront societal problems. We trend Justin Bieber instead.”
― Lauren Leto

“Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.”
― Celia Rivenbark, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Trend analysis can be useful, but trends only describe our past, implying some degree of continuity.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions.... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“How the West reacts to China’s rise will be an epoch-defining driver of disruption.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The term metaruptions is an abbreviation of disruption with the prefix “meta.” A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself. Metaruptions are characterized by the dynamic interactions of subordinate drivers of change.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions are constantly evolving. The signals provide feedback loops that help appreciate how dynamic futures may take shape. However, we need to pay careful attention to compounding forces, which could spill over into irreversible tipping points.

To comprehend disruption, we need to decipher its fundamental drivers, forces, and influences. Identifying these drivers, and their synthesis as metaruptions, can inform decision-making.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions cause widespread, self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions. As early changes spill over, impacts combine, propagate, and modify other elements within the system. Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavour, not a number-crunching exercise.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“At some point, we may come to experience the collapse of trends in their entirety, replaced by the constant emergence of a multitude of micro-trends. Welcome to the end of trends.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Here's what the death knell for the personal computer will sound like: Mainly I use my phone/paid, but I still use my PC to write long e-mails and documents. Most people aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed”
― Paul G Allen, Idea Man

“Reality TV... The curse of the twenty-first century. Why were people so fascinated by being spectators to other people's lives? Watching people bake cakes, build tree houses, or just invading rich families' living rooms. It was like watching a soap opera without the plot.”
― Adam Rabinowitz, Garage Band

“Did she just use totally as a modifier? Horrid locution! How easy it is to get sucked down the verbal drain into the bottomless pit of word fashions.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“In the ever-evolving landscape of our world, trends are the signposts that guide us towards the future.”
― Jeston Punnyman, The 2024 UK General Election: Labour's Historic Victory and the Future of British Politics

“Disruption requires sacrifice. It is better to pay the price to set trends, than follow the trends set by others.”
― Isaac Mashman

“There are more than a few advantages to not following the prevailing trends. As Rob Liefeld was famous for not drawing superhero feet you could get Jack Kirby "Devil Dinosaur" comics for a dime. When Poison was trying to make the phrase "Unskinny Bop" a thing I bought a copy of Ozzy-era Black Sabbath's "Sabotage" on cassette for $1.”
― Damon Thomas, Too Weird To Share: A Rural Gloom Sampler

“Love has gone extinct, and sadly, hate is now in vogue.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Speak truth, not trends.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“An objective financial mindset promotes a careful and balanced approach to investing, avoiding the emotional biases that can disrupt even the best financial plans. It's a reminder that in finance, as in life, its often prudent to step back, assess the situation calmly, and act based on rational analysis rather than getting swept up in the moment's emotions or trends.”
― Tammy Trenta, Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint

“In this era, where almost everyone is glued to the latest technology, it is hard to find a person who would genuinely want to connect on the soul level.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“No technology is fool proof that tailoring a resume to solely pass the filters will not guarantee a screening nor an interview.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“To love even when it hurts, to speak truth when it's not trending, that's the sign of character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot