“HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.” IfsLongMomentsNamesKnowingFashionEternityBrandsQuietnessFadsLive Every DayBrand Names Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.” ThinkingCultureLiteratureFashionApproachThoughtfulFadesInfallibleFads Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.” IdeasFashionInnovationChairsProfessorsPlatformsPulpitFads Author:Alice Dunbar Nelson
“Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.” HumansIdeasDesireStrongGroupsFashionSusceptibleFadsContagionStrong Desire Author:Michael Mauboussin
“Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.” MeanArtSpiritSimpleFashionTeaSparesCeremonyTranscendenceKarateFadsArcheryCalligraphyTea Ceremony Author:Shunryu Suzuki
“Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.” WayLongNextProcessTermCompanyProgressFashionBuildingFindingsEternalCommitmentProgramOrganizationManagementCoreStatementsPreservesLong TermStringsIntroducingVisionariesFadsQuick FixesFashion Statement Author:James C. Collins
“We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.” SaidRealCareersFashionHighestLowsFlowTrust MeStay TrueFadsEbb And Flow Author:Jon Bon Jovi