Trends Quotes

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

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.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Market like the year you are in.

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

Social media is not a fad because it's human.

I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.