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• It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Catalyst For Change, Coaching

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• 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

  Destiny, Work Out, Coincidence In Life

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise.

  Jamie Lewis

  Cutting, Technology, Reality

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• The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

  Howard Zinn

  Self, Speaks Out, Catalyst For Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Teenage, Drama

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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• I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

  Brendon Urie

  Believe, Use, I Believe

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Inspirational, Opposites

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• Discontent is the catalyst for change.

  Mike Murdock

  Catalyst For Change, Discontent

  Mike Murdock (2012). “1 Minute Businesswoman's Devotional”, p.199, Wisdom International Inc

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Done, Deeds

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

  Ralph Nader

  Flow, Action, Biodiversity

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”

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• I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Hands, Empathy, Survival

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.223, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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.

  Conan O'Brien

  Positive, Attitude, Unique

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

  Mark Price

  Believe, Ocean, Average

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• 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

  Warrior, Dragons, Quests

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.739, Spectra

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• 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.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Powerful, War, Emotional

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

  Klaus Schwab

  Entrepreneur, Effort, Foundation

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• To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

  Loreena McKennitt

  People, Interesting, Territory

  "Times of Discovery". Interview with Anil Prasad, www.innerviews.org. 1991.

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• You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst — a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.

  Zelda Popkin

  Children, Book, Writing

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

  Fareed Zakaria

  Running, Keys, Government

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• [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

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

  Neil Cross

  Men, Fake, Way

  "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• 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

  Artist, Decision, Feelings

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• It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Education, Religious

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