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• It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Catalyst For Change, Coaching

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• 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

  Fighting, Rights, Media

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• 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

  Destiny, Work Out, Coincidence In Life

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Done, Deeds

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Inspirational, Opposites

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• 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

  Choices, Fickle, Demise

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• The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

  Howard Zinn

  Self, Speaks Out, Catalyst For Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Teenage, Drama

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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• Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

  Samantha Power

  Terrorist, Standing, Recruitment

  "Ambassador Nominee Samantha Power On The Role Of The United Nations". Interview with Tom Jacobs, psmag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Hands, Empathy, Survival

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.223, HarperCollins Publishers

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Real, College, House

  "New Again: Sam Taylor-Johnson". Interview with David Furnish, Lauren Lieb, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one persona into another drunker, more fun one. It's a matter of going from dull point A to exciting point B. And I'm a raving success at it. So successful that sometimes I wind up at Mysterious Point C.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Fun, Successful, Wind

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• The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Letting Go, Challenges, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Want, Firsts

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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

  Conan O'Brien

  Positive, Attitude, Unique

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Running, Keys, Government

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• How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?

  Brad Willis

  Real, Blessing, Growth

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

  Mark Price

  Believe, Ocean, Average

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• It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Education, Religious

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• 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

  Warrior, Dragons, Quests

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.739, Spectra

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• We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bad Day, Choices, Forever

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• The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.

  Simon Tam

  Memories, War, Catalyst For Change

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• Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Solitude, Innovation

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• I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super hero story to unfold at the same scale as something like Star Wars. Rythm Mastr is about producing a narrative of a hero engaged in a struggle as complicated as those other stories. The catalyst for it was the beginning of the demolition of public housing in Chicago.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Stars, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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