Catalyst Quotes

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Wade Boggs

  Positive, Attitude, Ties

  "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• 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

  Change, Leadership, Persistence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Motivational, Broken Heart, Pain

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• A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?

  Wayne Shorter

  Doe, Matter, Vibrations

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• When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Catalyst For Change, Enemy, Proud

  "5. Rupert Murdoch", www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2008.

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• The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

  Jim Costa

  Rights, Victory, Important

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• Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Needs, Stories, Love Story

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Oct 08, 2013

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• 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

  Responsibility, Law, Long

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• Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

  Scott D. Cook

  Technology, Fundamentals, Force

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• 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

  Usa, America, People

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• It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

  William Weld

  Government, Office, Bully

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• 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

  Business, Superhero, Black

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• To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

  Donald Sutherland

  Imagination

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Rose, Together

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• You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

  Jim Capaldi

  Hype, Ability, Knows

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• And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

  Jimmy Buffett

  New Orleans, Years, Wounds

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• The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

  Philip J. Davis

  Math, Numbers, Helping

  Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser

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• 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

  Success, Business, Years

  "Rupert Murdoch: Protector of the printed word" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.

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• 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

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Nomenclature, Finals

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• 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

  Telescopes, Psychedelic, Lsd

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Innovation, Development, Xerox

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• 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

  Divorce, Thinking, People

  "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• 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

  Football, Spiritual, Catalyst For Change

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.

  Mark Schaefer

  New Relationship, Benefits, Social Media

  Mark Schaefer (2012). “The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional

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