Stanley Schmidt Quotes

I see groups that are hot one minute, and next time you see them, they're asking if you want a soda with that Happy Meal.

As a book is judged by its cover, so a fad is judged by its name.

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

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.

With anything new, if it's weird or cool, it will catch people's attention. But slowly, that new thing, if it catches on, it becomes a trend itself.

When a celebrity is spotted carrying a particular bag, everybody wants to own the same thing.

People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.

Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?

They are servants to a fickle public; they must seize its attention by novelty, hold it by new injections of interest, and then move on to something else. A newspaper can risk boring its public at its own peril.

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

The problem with hashtags is if someone starts a new hashtag, people move on.

Trends start and then explode very quickly, and pretty soon it's everywhere, including McDonalds.

I'm not really into trends.

Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.