Top 116 Turbulence Quotes & Sayings

From my perspective, to really be ready, we can't afford to have these deep degradations in readiness associated with personnel turbulence post-deployment.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

The Fed cannot levitate markets forever. And when they finally do move, I think we have to be prepared for a considerable amount of turbulence.

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.

When the mask comes down when the plane's in turbulence, you've gotta put it on yourself first or you're not going to be able to do much good, even for the kid screaming next to you.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

I get nervous when I'm sitting in an airplane at 10,000 feet and then the sign comes on: 'Please fasten your seatbelt for turbulence.'

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.

Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It's to assure them that when the turbulence comes, we will all hold hands and get through it together.

Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

There's bound to be turbulence in any situation if you're with someone for long enough. Especially if you're with someone like me.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with that - seems to have increased the appetite of both parties for dramatic proposals.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.