Quotes About Catalysts

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. Your greatest setbacks are catalysts for your greatest comebacks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

Elizabeth Thornton

#6. We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Dannion Brinkley

#8. In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#9. Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.

Robert H. Grubbs

#10. Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these serendipitous exchanges made imprints on my mind and heart and served as catalysts for my ongoing growth and development.

Kristin S. Kaufman

#12. 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

#13. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change

Jon M. Sweeney

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

Terence McKenna

#15. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

Frederick Lenz

#17. To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

Loreena McKennitt

#18. Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Robert H. Grubbs

#19. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.

Kate Levinson

#20. They were catalysts, the fingers that tipped the first domino. They started things that grew into nothing things that were much greater than themselves. A touch, a nudge in the wrong direction, and everyone fell down.

Amy Zhang

#21. The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Nelson Mandela

#22. 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

#23. Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.

Robert H. Grubbs

#24. Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny.

T.D. Jakes

#25. Jasnah sniffed. Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change, Shallan.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

Robert H. Grubbs

#27. Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#28. Buchner proposed that fermentation was carried out by biological catalysts that he named enzymes (from the Greek en zyme, meaning in yeast). He concluded that living cells are chemical factories, in which enzymes manufacture the various products.

Nick Lane

#29. Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

Alan J. Heeger

#30. I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

Nelson Mandela

#31. The youth are the catalysts for real change.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#32. Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Sophie Calle