Simple Act Quotes

#1. Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

Ika Natassa

#2. 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

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

Jess Walter

#4. Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.

Patricia R. Barrett

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

Junot Diaz

#6. 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

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

Danny Boyle

#8. We spend our lives in such a hurry, so self-centred, that we forget the simple act of observing the life that's simmering all around us. Looking others in the eye, seeing more than faces. Maybe that's why we feel so lonely.

Filipa Fonseca Silva

#9. 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

#10. Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

Neil Diamond

#11. Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

Paul Hawken

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

Bryant McGill

#18. Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

Simone Elkeles

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

Keanu Reeves

#20. 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

#21. The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Simon Mainwaring

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

Kristen J. Duca

#23. 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

#24. The simple act of caring is heroic.

Edward Albert

#25. You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

Mariel Hemingway

#26. If you're stuck on a problem, don't sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don't know what you're doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.

Mark Manson

#27. 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.

#28. 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

#29. Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#30. To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Harry Callahan

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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.

#34. 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

#35. Or you could take a more deliberate approach. Adjust your course. Make your five-years-out ideal job closer to your if-only-I-could dream job, yet attainable from your current path. We've seen even this simple act of setting the right goal turn around people's careers.

Eric Schmidt

#36. A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind.

Debasish Mridha

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

Tom Peters

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

William J. Clinton

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

Chip Heath

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

Napoleon Hill

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Debbie Macomber

#49. Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. 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

#51. She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.

Donna Leon

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

Joan Clark

#53. 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

#54. Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Donna Farhi

#55. 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

#56. Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.

Judi Dench

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#58. 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

#59. 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

#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. The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear.

Robert J. Morgan

#62. How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave's mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.

Kyle Baker

#63. 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

#64. There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

Caroline Myss

#65. 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

#66. Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.

Joy Browne

#67. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

David Hyde Pierce

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

James Runcie

#69. 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

#70. Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Debasish Mridha

#72. 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

#73. Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices.

Amine Zidouh

#74. 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

#75. That simple act stole my breath, my heart. But even as he pulled away, I realized that he couldn't steal something he already had.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#76. 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

#77. Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world I'm not going to give up.

Shirley Corder

#78. 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

#79. 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

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

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

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

Jay Samit

#82. I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

Amanda Hocking

#83. I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.

Billy Corgan

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

John Peter Altgeld

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

Feroz Bham

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

Emmuska Orczy

#87. In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#88. Most humans expressed affection by pressing their lips together, a simple act, so why would anyone feel the need to research the process?

Melissa Landers

#89. Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy

Mitch Albom

#90. You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

Jennifer Skiff

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. The simple act of talking openly about behavioral patterns makes the subconscious conscious.

Sheryl Sandberg

#94. The simple act of helping someone - with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

Kevin Eikenberry

#95. 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

#96. I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

Cristina Henriquez

#97. The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. If you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude.

Debasish Mridha