Fads Quotations

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.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

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.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

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.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

I've never been on a fad diet.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

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.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

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.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

I think it just shows that there are fads and fashions that come and go in the transportation industry as in any industry.

Our research suggests that consumers, for all the publicity concerning carbohydrates and health, are still confused about weight management and how to include carbohydrates in a healthful diet. Fads and quick fixes, though attractive, are not effective tools for getting to a healthful diet.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

Fads end eventually and value suddenly mattered again. The bank group outperformed the broad market in third, fourth and first quarter of this year.

Fads don't last, but it should be clear by now that the Beatles are no ordinary fad.

Fashion fads are always tricky because you want your child to fit in with her friends, but you also want to teach her that she doesn't have to follow every trend that comes along. So when there's something new she wants to try, let her experiment, but if you think she's spending too much time or money on it, then you might want to step in.

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.

Food manufacturers will capitalize on fads as long as they're around and its profitable for them. When it's over, it's on to the next thing.

It's different fads, and retailers are trying to get you to buy to make money. And it's usually crackers, cookies and chips, the things that we don't want to have all the time. You won't have fads with fruits, veggies and fresh meats.

They will help Americans to cut through all the fads and all the myths concerning our diets,

I remember one of her great fads for a couple of years was tap dancing, ... The main hall is called Wooten Hall, and that's got this wonderful marble floor, and it was perfect for that.

Marketing has long known how to exploit fads and how to develop trends.

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

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.

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

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

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.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

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.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

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.

Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.

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.

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.

The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

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.

Im not interested in fad songs.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

The internet is just a passing fad.