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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. -- Ramsey Clark
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
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. -- Daniela Pestova
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. -- Emmitt Smith
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. -- Will Durant
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence. -- Paul McCartney
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. -- Samuel Johnson
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. -- William Wordsworth
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. -- John F. Kennedy
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. -- Peter Drucker
I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.' -- Steve Aoki
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. -- Chanel Iman
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first. -- Werner Heisenberg
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. -- Allen Klein
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change. -- Will Durant
The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region. -- Xi Jinping
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. -- Lewis H. Lapham
My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid. -- Nile Rodgers
If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it. -- Henry Rollins
Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant. -- Robin Sharma
My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport. -- Dennis Miller
Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama. -- Jay Leno
Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving. -- Gretel Ehrlich
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer. -- Rafael Nadal
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence. -- Gautam Adani
Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence. -- Julia Cameron
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence. -- Pierce Brosnan
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. -- Samantha Bond
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. -- Robert Englund
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. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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. -- Kevin Kelly
I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets. -- Henry Paulson
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. -- Sandra Bullock
Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. -- Denzil Douglas
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. -- Marsha Thomason
I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now. -- Paul Merton
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. -- Walter Savage Landor
In the midst of the turbulence, we hang onto hope. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In times of turbulence, we must keep calm and be patient. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence. -- Junot Diaz
The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. -- Tony Blair
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. -- Vita Sackville-West
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. -- Walter J. Phillips
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? -- Henry Mintzberg
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. -- James Ensor
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities. -- Brian Tracy
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion. -- Maya Lin
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind. -- B. Alan Wallace
I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river. -- Eugie Foster
There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip. -- T.F. Hodge
Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely. -- Chuck Daly
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. -- Francis Picabia
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. -- Joanna Baillie
In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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. -- Richard Corliss
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. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove. -- Roland Merullo
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. -- William Cowper
You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence. -- Louise Gluck
I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence"?everything a little dust devil like me could want. -- Rick Riordan
Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity. -- Kathleen McDonald
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth. -- Haim Ginott
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy.... -- Edmund Randolph
My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on. -- Greg Rutherford

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