The Catalyst Quotes

#1. My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!

Brody Jenner

#2. My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'

Josh Cooke

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Steve Carlton

#6. In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.

Stephen Covey

#7. A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.

Jodi Picoult

#8. The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

Jan Hammer

#9. Grace is the catalyst that turns guilt into gratitude. One act of grace can turn the worst moment into the defining moment of someone's life. You can be that agent of grace.

Mark Batterson

#10. I am The Catalyst of Change

CM Punk

#11. When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.

Peter Hans Kolvenbach

#12. The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

Gerry Adams

#13. what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.

Nikki Rowe

#14. Knowledge is the foundation for understanding; understanding the catalyst for peace.

Nikki DiCaro

#15. 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

#16. I'm not allowed to have what I want. I can't have the prince ... because I am the unimaginable. I'm the catalyst in the destruction of my own happy ending. If only someone had warned the prince.

Ella Frank

#17. 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

#18. [People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.

Evgeny Morozov

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

Ann Marie Frohoff

#22. If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Masiela Lusha

#23. It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing them to give their best every moment of creation. Writing becomes their medicine, their way of escape, the catalyst for their imagination.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#24. Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.

Belinda Bauer

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

Wayne Shorter

#26. Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.

Lolly Daskal

#27. Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.

Mark Batterson

#28. Be the catalyst for change.
Empowering women, empowering humanity

Farhan Akhtar

#29. My brother Hayden's friendship with James Webber
would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental
meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian
Huntley.

Stephen Richards

#30. Discontent is the catalyst for change.

Mike Murdock

#31. I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

David Chipperfield

#32. 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

#33. The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet.

Jonathan Hickman

#34. A catalyst was DarAles for his time, a changer of hearts and lives. He came not to be hero, but to enable the hero in others. He came, not to fulfill prophesies, but to open the doors to new futures. Such is ever the task of the catalyst.

Robin Hobb

#35. To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

Mary Miller

#36. Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

Joan D. Chittister

#37. I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

Larry Hagman

#38. Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.

Zig Ziglar

#39. Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

Penney Peirce

#40. You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?

A.G. Howard

#41. Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.

Fred Munoz

#42. Change is the catalyst of life and, likewise, the catalyst for all great work.

David Sturt

#43. Oh I still cared about the sex, but it was very different now. The dominant needs in me had blossomed since finding Brynne, as if she was the catalyst. In fact, I knew she was. I wanted things with her that frightened me because I didn't want - no, couldn't bear to lose her over it.

Raine Miller

#44. Consecration is a process of surrender that never ends. And prayer is the catalyst. It begins with a sinner's prayer. We confess our sins to the Savior and surrender our lives to His lordship. And along the way, our spiritual journeys are

Mark Batterson

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

Mark Schaefer

#46. There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

Brian Joyce

#47. I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

T.D. Jakes

#48. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

Tony Dovale

#49. Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

Thomas Huxley

#50. Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.

Michael Ramirez

#51. the catalyst for this fine thinking, you are both essential and irrelevant. You matter profoundly, because you do not matter at all.

Nancy Kline

#52. 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

#53. Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Peter Kreeft

#54. It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed.

Brian Epstein

#55. 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

#56. An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.

David J. Anderson

#57. Encouraging others can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness.

Rob Liano

#58. Love is the catalyst that causes change. Love is the balm that brings healing to the soul.

Thomas S. Monson

#59. 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

#60. The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and perception. Without it, the attempt to reach enlightenment and awaken consciousness is destined to fail.

Belsebuub

#61. Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#62. 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

#63. Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

Andy Stanley

#64. Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love.

Bell Hooks

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

Andrew Shue

#66. With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

Jack Kilmer

#67. 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

#68. Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Owen Arthur

#69. Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#70. In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her - hadn't even wanted her, truthfully - but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

Cathleen Falsani

#71. I'd finally given her what she wanted,
the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the
catalyst of change) through the agency of death.

K.J. Parker

#72. 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

#73. A study of Fortune 500 companies from research organization Catalyst found that those with the highest representation of women on their boards of directors performed significantly better than those with the lowest representation of women.

Anonymous

#74. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

Scott Hammerle

#75. 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

#76. What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

Terence McKenna

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present

Eric Butterworth

#80. The key is never sheer numbers. The key is the correct catalyst. A pebble can start a landslide and the boulders have no say in the matter as they tumble down the hill.

Patrick Ness

#81. If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

Craig Groeschel

#82. The history of the development of any urban center will be incomplete without a mention of the role of mass transit in the whole process. In deed the role of mass transit as a catalyst of industrial revolution and urbanization cannot be over emphasized. In the case of the New

Clifford N. Opurum

#83. 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 S. Tam

#84. 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

#85. Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#86. 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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#88. 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

#89. I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

Keri Russell

#90. I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled out a story I wrote (and illustrated) back in elementary school. She used that as proof that I should be writing and had been doing so unconsciously for years.

Kim Smith

#91. Whether it is an ad or a business, it must be something I believe in. I cannot do something simply for the money. It must connect with me because I want to be a catalyst to make people's lives happier.

Shilpa Shetty

#92. The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

Abiola Abrams

#93. 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

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

William Weld

#95. Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world.

Debasish Mridha

#96. 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

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

Philip J. Davis

#98. 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 control it, wish to influence its direction.

Theodore Zeldin

#99. 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

#100. 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