90 Turbulence Quotes

Following is our list of turbulence quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about turbulent times.

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Famous Turbulence Quotes

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

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

It is your restlessness that causes chaos. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. — Tom Barrett

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. — Eugene V. Debs

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. — Tom Robbins

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. - Mary Catherine Bateson

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. — Mikhail Lermontov

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. — Edward Norton Lorenz

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. — Margaret J. Wheatley

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. - Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. — Orson Scott Card

Short Turbulence Quotes

  • The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton
  • In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. — John F. Kennedy
  • Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. — Richard P. Feynman
  • Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence. — Sayings
  • After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. — Vita Sackville-West
  • For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. — Will Durant
  • Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors. — Lynn Austin
  • Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth
  • So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. — Andy Grove

Turbulence Image Quotes

Turbulence quote The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becom
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

Life Turbulence Quotes

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture. — Marlon Brando

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. — Margaret Mitchell

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

Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. — Walt Whitman

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. — Jimmy Carter

I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but it was a very interesting and turbulent but kind of wild ride and I'm not ashamed of it all. I think it's hilarious and I learned a lot about human nature. — Channing Tatum

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

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning. — John Mason Brown

Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate. — Stephen Marche

Turbulent Times Quotes

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. — Kara Walker

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

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. — Sri Aurobindo

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times. — Julie B. Beck

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him. — Lynn Austin

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time. — Dean Koontz

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience. — John Naisbitt

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy. — Hany Abu-Assad

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

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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More Turbulence Quotes

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

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

Having spent 4,000 turbulent years building its landmass, China is now building a navy to patrol the oceans. — Tim Marshall

In the face of the turbulent changes in the situation in Hong Kong, we have effectively exercised the power of comprehensive control over the Special Administrative Region in accordance with the constitution and the Basic Law, implemented the principle of patriots governing Hong Kong and achieved a major turning point in the situation in Hong Kong from chaos to governance. — Xi Jinping

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. — Nikola Tesla

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. — Charles Trevelyan

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

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides. — June Hunt

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

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall. — Harold E. Puthoff

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

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. — Vladimir Putin

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

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

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

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

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now. — Nikki Reed

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

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! — Robert Peel

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

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

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

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. — Alexander Hamilton

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. — Walt Whitman

If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay. — Karen Armstrong

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