Turbulence Quotations

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

would cause a chain of dramatic turbulence in the region.

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

It isn't a demand issue. There will be some turbulence near-term based purely on component delivery issues that are beyond Apple's control.

People are moving to where the jobs and the growth are occurring. That means a lot more turbulence in people's lives.

I think given the personnel turbulence on the Supreme Court right now, as well as the less-than-clear road map the court gave us in 2004, it's a whole new ballgame.

You are going to see the IPO market underwriters really become selective in what they let out. The turbulence really could cripple the IPO market in the short-term.

We need to hire a bubble of controllers that will move our National Airspace System smoothly through the next decade without the turbulence of short staffing and its numerous associated problems.

When a rocket is launched, as it picks up speed and moves down range it goes through a period of aerodynamic turbulence much like Security Council resolutions, ... We're now in the period of aerodynamic turbulence.

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

After a year of turbulence following the reorganization of the sales force, it now appears that the group is fully engaged and focused as leadership and accounts have been settled.

After experiencing severe turbulence over Eastern India we are pleased that the weather conditions have now settled down and that, thankfully, it was short lived.

That there is turbulence at times in the parties involved is painful and not good, ... One or two have now fled abroad, or nearly fled abroad... The important thing now is to look forward. I'm sure it'll all turn out fine.

Alarmism was creating turbulence and confusion. Approving the budget has distanced us from these risks.

There's ... a liability issue. If an American Airlines plane hits clear air turbulence and someone is injured, they can fall back on the fact that they have it stated in their policy that they must be seated with their seat belt fastened at all times.

This is the wakeup call. We're going to go through a test here where we're going to have a period of turbulence in the market as we report second-quarter earnings and get forward-looking guidance for the third quarter.

This is the wakeup call, ... We're going to go through a test here where we're going to have a period of turbulence in the market as we report second-quarter earnings and get forward-looking guidance for the third quarter.

You try to maintain a certain distance at all times, and you have to deal with different wind speeds and turbulence ... It's a lot of work.

The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is finally closed.

I want my party to be a place where something is always going on, with one condition -- that what goes on must always be constructive and look forward, not destructive and directed against each other. We should draw a line under the turbulence of recent weeks and look forward.

I try not to think about it. The times you think about it are when you are on a plane and you hit some turbulence and you hope it doesn't happen again. Right now, you can't help but get on airplanes and fly. I'm just thankful my wife and I were OK. Then, you go on with life. You can't use that as a crutch not to do anything.

However, we will not repeat the past bitter history of turbulence and instability in the world resulted from the rise of a big power, but seek a road that a new rising nation has never taken,

The IMF should work with capital markets, not against, ... It is not the function of the IMF to over-regulate but to ensure risks of capital flows from turbulence are contained.

The global problem of uneven development is increasingly salient as the gap between the North and South is further widening. There are financial turbulence from time to time and new manifestations of trade barriers and protectionism. We must strengthen international cooperation to seize opportunities and meet challenges together so as to promote balanced and orderly development of the world economy.

The financial turbulence of Asia and other market changes have crimped the expected expansion of global chip markets in early 1998,

The market was prepared for the end of quantitative easing, it has caused some turbulence in the past couple of weeks.

The market remains very nervous and volatile. While we have the turbulence in the U.S. markets, it's best to stay clear.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

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

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

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 successSought in still water, and beneath clear skies.