Simple Act Quotes

#1. In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.

Joan D. Chittister

#2. Sometimes it was like a deep ache, the simple act of breathing in and out.

Jess Walter

#3. Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

David Korten

#4. Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

Junot Diaz

#5. I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do.

Natalie Goldberg

#6. It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act ... if someone creates you.

Danny Boyle

#7. My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

Sean Penn

#8. The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

Dana Gould

#9. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

Susan Cain

#10. Think big, act bold, start simple, and iterate fast.

John R. Patrick

#11. I've lost control of the simple act of being able to breathe. I'm hyperventilating.
"I don't need you to show me how to breathe," I say.
"You don't?" He looks skeptical.
"I think I can handle the simple act of breathing without you.

Adriana Law

#12. Buy what you don't have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Sting

#14. The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Jim Harrison

#15. The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

Samuel Alexander

#16. I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

Donald Trump

#17. The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Keanu Reeves

#18. For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

#19. quantum physics, in which the simple act of observation seemed to affect the physical world, and in which changes performed on one physical system could have an immediate effect on another quite unlinked system (the theory of nonlocality),

George Pendle

#20. When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver

Kristen J. Duca

#22. Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in.

Sue Whiting

#23. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#24. We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.

Mark Hodder

#25. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. Activism" is not just what we see on the streets or on the Internet or in the news; sometimes, "activism" is the simple act of doggedly, determinedly surviving.

Barbara Gurr

#27. The act is a vessel that can hold a continuum of human intentions - a sweet, holy song of flesh and love, the simple, mindless rut of youth, or the darkest violation. It encompasses what we bring to it. Too often people fill it with shame.

Rhonda Riley

#28. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. Sometimes the simple act of humanizing problems sheds an important light on them, a light that often goes out the minute a stigmatizing label is applied.

Brene Brown

#29. Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us.

Miroslav Volf

#30. Perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Aristotle.

#31. When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

Deepak Chopra

#32. The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Peters

#33. We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.

Andy Hobsbawm

#34. The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carol P. Christ

#35. The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Max De Pree

#36. It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.

Peter Heller

#37. The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.

Chip Heath

#38. In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.

Per G. Malm

#39. To really know what progress we're making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country's intent to take care of its people.

Harry Belafonte

#40. God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

Wayne Grudem

#41. Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#42. Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Paulo Coelho

#43. Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

Daniel Goleman

#44. All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

W. H. Auden

#45. The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

Ian Bogost

#46. I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world.

Julian Pencilliah

#47. There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.

Steven Pressfield

#48. After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Nelson Mandela

#49. Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.

Joan Clark

#50. As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

Eckhart Tolle

#51. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#52. Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

Brent Green

#53. praying without having faith in and believing in what you pray for is just a simple act of soliloquizing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin

#55. 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.

Susan Cain

#56. The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.

Marcus Aurelius

#57. Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Daniel Goleman

#58. We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.

Henry B. Eyring

#59. When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#60. The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Susan Cain

#61. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.

Drexel Deal

#62. Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.

Alexander MacLaren

#63. When in doubt, be simple. Your life purpose should be an easy target to conceive sometimes all it takes is a simple act of courage to get you there.

Omar Al-Attas

#64. He liked washing up; the simple act of cleanliness had immediately visible results.

James Runcie

#65. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#66. A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#67. You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

Chris Abani

#68. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#69. Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work.

Paul Tonko

#70. One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.

Paulo Coelho

#71. Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#72. The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

Brian Tracy

#73. So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

W.C. Fields

#74. I concentrate on the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other and continue moving forward even as part of me is left behind, beyond a fence I cannot breach.

Amy Engel

#75. Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#76. Most discoveries come from the simple act of identifying life's problems.

Jay Samit

#77. No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

John Peter Altgeld

#78. A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.

Feroz Bham

#79. Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.

Emmuska Orczy

#80. Each kind act
and simple insight
is a victory.

Ivan M. Granger

#81. I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.

Chuck D

#82. In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it is only by an act of simple faith that he accepts the testimony of sense-experience.

Paul Brunton

#83. Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

Dean Karnazes

#84. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

George H. W. Bush

#85. All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

Salman Khan

#86. Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

Morgan Freeman

#87. By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#88. Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

Charlie Munger

#89. The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

Sol Luckman

#90. Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

Monica Johnson

#91. Don't just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

Israelmore Ayivor

#92. All the specific word choice does is act as a simple frame that impacts our line of reasoning and even our memory

Anonymous

#93. The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

Kamal Ravikant

#94. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston S. Churchill

#95. The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.

Lauren Artress

#96. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#97. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

Don Coppersmith

#98. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.

Sharon Salzberg

#99. Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

Marcel Proust

#100. You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

Anne Frank