Quotes About Catalyst

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

I am the impurity that makes the zinc react, I am the grain of salt or mustard.

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

We do not need a heavy hand, just wise policies and an understanding that some things are so big or risky that only the government can be the catalyst for action.

I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.

Sounds like being a therapist. People normally came into my office because something happened. Someone had died, or betrayed them. Their love wasn't reciprocated. They'd lost a job. Gotten divorced. Something big. But the truth was, while that might've been the catalyst, the problem was almost always tiny and old and hidden.

Most of the people came through my door because of a crisis in their lives, and most of those crises boiled down to loss. Loss of a marriage or an important relationship. Loss of security. A job, a home, a parent. Something drove them to ask for help and to look deep inside themselves. And the catalyst was often change and loss.

Professor Robinson was revealing, not creating, the anger. The fear. And yes, perhaps even the cowardice they kept hidden away. She was like some genetic mutation awakening illnesses that would have normally lain dormant. She was the catalyst. But the potential, the sickness, was already there.

I can simply tell you that all of us need to be aware that trauma has a twofold potential: it can be the catalyst for creative change or the cause of self-destruction.

There are three questions you need to ask and answer to test your readiness to be a catalyst for significance," Jim replied. "They are: Can you be the best in the world at what you do? Are you passionate about what you are doing? Do you have the resources to change your world?

MANY THINGS IN LIFE JUST HAPPEN, BUT POSITIVE CHANGE ISN'T ONE OF THEM. CHANGING ANYTHING IN OUR WORLD REQUIRES SOMEONE TO BE THE CATALYST.

To lead change, to be a catalyst, you have to believe you can make a difference.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Yes, but negative is an illusion. Negative and positive are both construction material. Negative is evolutionary catalyst. D: But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

One word set off others like a string of firecrackers.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.

You have the sense that you're the one making the world go round. Everyone speaks in fragments, but for an instant those fragments are a catalyst, my self is erased and it brings on a wave of pure ecstasy, that instant in the drug.