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Quotes About Catalyst

If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I become.
~ Robin Hobb
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
The White Prophet and the Catalyst!" she cried in disgust. "Rather name them as they are, the Fool and the Idiot. Of all the careless, foolish things to do!
~ Robin Hobb
It could all happen again, and I could not stop it. I think I grasped then, fleetingly, the passion that powered the Fool. He believed in the terrible strength of the White Prophet and the Catalyst, to shoulder the future from the rut of the present and into some better pathway. He believed that some act of ours could prevent others from repeating the mistakes of the past
~ Robin Hobb
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
There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.
~ Michael Dell
An intentional thought needs an energizer, a catalyst—and that energy is an elevated emotion.
~ Joe Dispenza
If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. --Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904
~ Franz Kafka
Everyone's life, not matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst - the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.
~ Robyn Schneider
I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst- the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere- it's what comes after that determines the result.
~ Robyn Schneider
I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst—the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere—it's what comes after that determines the result.
~ Robyn Schneider
I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst – the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere – it's what comes after that determines the result. So who was I in the aftermath of my personal tragedy?
~ Robyn Schneider
It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my catalyst and my propeller. It seems only fair don't you think?
~ Rosalie Ham
In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
~ Tony Dovale
Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom.
~ Tony Dovale
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
~ Sarah Dessen
Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so much as the physics of silicon for his prognostications. But this form of silicon life could not have evolved spontaneously : it requires a carbon-based life-form to act as a catalyst. We are that catalyst.
~ John D. Barrow
She was going to die soon and Gabriel Cionaodh Marcus Mac Braire, somehow, someway, would be the catalyst.
~ Anya Bast
I am first and foremost a catalist; I put people and situations together.
~ Armand Hammer
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
~ Shirley Chisholm
I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich, and ruined our countries. I couldn't be happier.
~ Nigel Farage
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
~ Vernor Vinge