Catalyst Quotes - Page 5

• Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Economic, Downturn

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• 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

  Writing, Phrases, May

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

  Paul Bloom

  War, Thinking, People

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

  Robert Griffin III

  Catalyst For Change, Guy, Happens

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 02, 2012.

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• Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Cutting, Exercise, Keys

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• 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

  Writing, Voice, Creating

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

  Film, Used, Function

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

  Andrew Shue

  America, People, Effort

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• The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Imagination, Way

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

  Seth Klarman

  Maturity, Debt, Dependence

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• Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.

  Seth Klarman

  Giving, Good Man, Attention

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• I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.

  Whit Stillman

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My own growth is a part of a group evolution, definitely. It does feel as if the changes in the group are meant to be, and that I am not as much a catalyst, so to say, but rather a result of this.

  Varg Vikernes

  Growth, Groups, Doe

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

  Amit Ray

  Love Is, Soul, Melody

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• 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

  Moving, Creativity, Cities

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• The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Effort, Culture, Sculpture

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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

  Believe, Iraq, Important

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• The Ayodhya judgment will work as a catalyst to maintain peace and unity in the country. This judgment has given a respect to belief and self esteem of the people of India, and it should be linked to self esteem of the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Self Esteem, People

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• Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Encouragement, Teaching, Helping Others

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• Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

  Cathy Freeman

  Leadership, Powerful, Disappointment

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• 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

  Impact, Political, Historical

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.148, Verso

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• NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change

  Claude Martin

  Catalyst For Change, Challenges, Inspire

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