Catalyst Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Masiela Lusha
You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness. View quote
Andrew Biersack
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. View quote
Uri Geller
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness. View quote
Shari Arison
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. View quote
William Weld
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. View quote
Conan O'Brien
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. View quote
Alden Ehrenreich
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. View quote
Blair Underwood
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. View quote
Jim Capaldi
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. (Jim Costa)
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. View quote
Karen Kain
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. View quote
Steve Carlton
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. View quote
Scott Cook
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. View quote
Tate Taylor
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. View quote
Wade Boggs
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. View quote
Marilyn Manson
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. View quote
Queen Rania of Jordan
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. View quote
Susan Cain
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. View quote
Robin Hobb
The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria. (Michael Chabon)
At the big Georgia paper mill the saboteur was obviously a chemist. Some kind of catalyst was substituted for a drum of regular sizing solution and vast billowing waves of corrosive fumes ruined the plant. Anonymous calls to a local TV station claimed it had been done to preserve trees. The same day, in northern California, signs were posted on a stand of redwoods that the governor had authorized for lumbering: about two hundred of the last six hundred in the state. The signs said: FOR EVERY TREE YOU KILL ONE OF YOU WILL DIE TOO. The promise was carried out with Schmiesser machine-pistols. The actual score was eighteen people for seventeen trees. Close enough. View quote
John Brunner
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. View quote
Stanislav Grof
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
John Cage, composer, painter, and all-round thinker and cultural catalyst, said that if you introduce twenty percent of novelty into any artwork, watch out -- you are going to lose eighty percent of your audience at once. He said you would lose them for fifteen years. Cage was interested in fifteen-year cycles. But he was hopelessly optimistic. The general appreciation, for example, of Western painting has got stuck around Impressionism, and that was 130 years ago, not fifteen years ago. View quote
Peter Greenaway