Fads famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
-- Aubrey Daniels -
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
-- Barry Commoner -
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
-- Bill Brandt -
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
-- Colin Powell -
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
-- Connie Sellecca -
Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
-- Connie Willis -
Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
-- Conrad Black -
Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
-- Conway Twitty -
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
-- Daphne Koller -
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.
-- David A. Bednar -
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
-- David Lloyd George -
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
-- Diane Ravitch -
And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.
-- Dinah Shore -
Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
-- Erik Qualman -
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
-- Gail Collins -
Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
-- Grace Paley -
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
-- Howard Rheingold -
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
-- Irving Thalberg -
I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.
-- Jenna Ushkowitz -
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
-- Julia Child -
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.
-- Linda Gray -
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
-- Mick Jagger -
Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.
-- Milton S. Hershey -
The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.
-- Nathan Pritikin -
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.
-- Paul Henderson -
Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.
-- Paul Samuelson -
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
-- Robert Sheckley -
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
-- Sean Bean -
You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
-- Sean Parker -
The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.
-- Skylar Astin -
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
-- Stephen L. Carter -
The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.
-- Steve Stockman -
At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.
-- Sumner Redstone -
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.
-- Vannevar Bush -
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
-- Wallace Thurman -
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
-- Walter Lippmann -
I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
-- Eric Benet -
Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.
-- Kurt Eichenwald -
Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.
-- Alan Freed -
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.
-- Mary Travers -
I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.
-- Matthew Hussey -
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.
-- Robert J. Flaherty
