#fads

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#fads #great #great things #opinion #popular

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys. ↗

— Murasaki Shikibu

#fads #timelessness #toys #art

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#fads #history #sugar #sweet-tooth #why-tanning-is-stupid

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? ↗

— Connie Willis

#bellwether #fads #humour #independence #independence

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

— Conway Twitty

#death #fad #fads #go #goes

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#any #bar #bread #carbs #chocolate

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

— Colin Powell

#approach #best #chase #dictates #fads

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

— Diane Ravitch

#been #century #education #fads #failed

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

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#go #going #little #never #out