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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort. -- Ian Somerhalder
Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. -- Rupert Murdoch
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. -- Jimmy Buffett
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. -- Wade Boggs
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. -- Rupert Murdoch
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. -- Louisa May Alcott
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation? -- Jack LaLanne
I am The Catalyst of Change -- CM Punk
I am and always will be a catalyst for change. -- Shirley Chisholm
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. -- Scott D. Cook
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. -- Philip J. Davis
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. -- Donald Sutherland
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. -- Jim Capaldi
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. -- William Weld
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. -- Wolfgang Ostwald
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. -- Jim Costa
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. -- Steve Carlton
I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight. -- Valerie Bertinelli
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny. -- David Richo
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. -- Stanislav Grof
No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest -- Robin Hobb
You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not. -- Rosario Dawson
Ive just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. -- Uri Geller
I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me. -- Blair Underwood
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. -- Stephen Covey
I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. -- Florentijn Hofman
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. -- Scott D. Cook
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together. -- Don King
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. -- Fareed Zakaria
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment. -- Samantha Power
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness. -- Shari Arison
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. -- Tate Taylor
Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. -- Rupert Murdoch
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams. -- Les Brown
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. -- John T. Walton
I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. -- Rupert Murdoch
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. -- Marilyn Manson
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public. -- Karen Kain
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential. -- Anthony Fauci
I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing. -- Kevin Hart
Solitude is a catalyst for innovation -- Mahatma Gandhi
Discontent is the catalyst for change. -- Mike Murdock
Conversation is a catalyst for innovation -- John Seely Brown
Creativity is the catalyst to the future. -- Ann Marie Frohoff
Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn -- John Warren Kindt
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. -- Joseph Conrad
Awareness is a powerful catalyst for positive change. -- Cheryl Richardson
Be the catalyst for change. Empowering women, empowering humanity -- Farhan Akhtar
Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions. -- Andy Stanley
There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity. -- Michael Dell
Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything. -- Peter Kreeft
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. -- John C. Maxwell
NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change -- Claude Martin
I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe. -- Brendon Urie
The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism. -- Gerry Adams
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage. -- Joan D. Chittister
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. -- Susan Cain
A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst? -- Wayne Shorter
Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment. -- Peter J. Daniels
Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that. -- Amit Ray
To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live. -- Narendra Modi
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America. -- Andrew Shue
Love is the catalyst that causes change. Love is the balm that brings healing to the soul. -- Thomas S. Monson
Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom. -- Tony Dovale
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom. -- Abiola Abrams
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth. -- Keri Russell
You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy. -- Robert Griffin III
The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential. -- Ralph Nader
Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life. -- Debbie Ford
Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity. -- Seth Klarman
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams. -- Thomas Huxley
I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. -- David Limbaugh
Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits. -- Mark Schaefer
I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever. -- Asif Ali Zardari
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change. -- Marilyn Suttle
I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world. -- George W. Bush
Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor. -- Narendra Modi
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours -- Slash
You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness. -- Andy Biersack
The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort. -- Klaus Schwab
If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work. -- Madonna Ciccone
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course. -- Michael Atiyah
The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon. -- Tom Freston
A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged! -- Michele Jennae
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes. -- Ger Duany
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. -- Alden Ehrenreich
My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . . -- Elizabeth Dole
Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors. -- James Gleick
I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. -- Uri Geller
You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' -- Rosario Dawson
Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind -- Allison McAtee
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen. -- Jack Nicklaus
A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change. -- Warren Berger
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction. -- Theodore Zeldin
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film. -- Sergio Leone
I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing. -- Kate Brown
Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city, a death - that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity. -- Lucinda Williams
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way. -- Diane Ackerman

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