Catalyst Quotes

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

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.

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?

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

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

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

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.

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

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

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.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

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.

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.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

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

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

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.

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.