Theo Paphitis

Every successful high street needs a catalyst that starts making people want to come there, and independent shops can be that catalyst. If you want a new idea on the high street, you'll probably find it in an independent. I know I shouldn't say this, but new ideas rarely happen in chains. What we do is adopt it once we spot it in an independent.

British Businessman

Paul Allen

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

American Businessman

Pierre Nanterme

If I had to probably define and characterize my job, and maybe the job of a CEO today in this global world, highly volatile, uncertain, and when you need to transform is to be the catalyst for change. That's probably the definition I would give to my job. I'm the catalyst.

French Businessman

John M. Grunsfeld

Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

American Astronaut

Gael Garcia Bernal

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.

Mexican Actor

Rosario Dawson

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.

American Actress

Frans van Houten

Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.

Dutch Businessman

Rupert Murdoch

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

American Publisher

Tony Evans

Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.

Florentijn Hofman

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

Dutch Artist

The term often implies that the catalyst motivated an already existing desire or movement.

Motivation Role

The catalyst in non-chemical contexts isn't a physical object, but often an event or person.

Non-Physical

Catalysts in social contexts usually lead to positive changes or progress.

Positive Change

In chemistry, a catalyst takes part in the reaction but comes out unchanged.

Chemical Reaction

A chemical catalyst works by lowering the energy barrier, making reactions faster.

Reaction Speed

Unlike reactants, a catalyst is not consumed; it remains available for reuse in the reaction.

Not Consumed

 and yet we let people who have made our lives better walk around without knowing it and every single one of you every single one of you has been the catalyst for a lollipop moment you have made someone's life better by something that you said or that you did and if you think you have it think about all the hands that didn't go back up when I

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 Then a matchmaker will help with this. The matchmaker makes it easier for a couple to get together, by coordinating the match. Our matchmaker is like a catalyst. Chemical catalysts function by lowering the activation energy -- in other words, by lowering the energy required to start a reaction.

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 Yet we let people who have made our lives better walk around without knowing it. Every single one of you has been the catalyst for a lollipop moment. You've made someone's life better by something you said or did. If you think you haven't, think of all the hands that didn't go up when I asked.

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 is I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential. And I realize that mystery is the catalyst for imagination. Now, it's not the most ground-breaking idea, but when I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge.

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 or of theology or perhaps not even literature, but it does a great job of getting people to put themselves in the shoes of people they wouldn't otherwise be in the shoes of, put themselves in the shoes of slaves. And that could well have been a catalyst for great social change.

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 inside living cells. Enzymes, those workhorses of life, the catalysts of chemical reactions -- enzymes are biomolecules that speed up chemical reactions in living cells, by many, many orders of magnitude. And it's always been a mystery how they do this. Well, it was discovered

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 the right to govern themselves and determine their own future but that moment of triumph was marred by one of the most violent forced migrations in human history known simply as partition lines drawn on a world map were the catalyst for the massacre of more than

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 would have appeared without marijuana use— whether marijuana use triggers it early, is a catalyst for a tipping point that wouldn’t have been crossed otherwise, or whether the reaction to marijuana is merely an indication of an underlying disorder.

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 diagnosed with the rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer but instead of cancer being the end-all be-all it became a catalyst it allowed my dreams to blossom into an idea rooted firmly in human biology culture and history and

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 based on the short-term returns, you're going to get short-term decisions. A lot more to be said about that. Become a catalyst of change. Teach others, learn about it, talk about it. The movie is a movie version of the slideshow