Top 1200 Simple Act Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

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

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

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.

The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

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.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

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

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

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

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

...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.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

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.

The sexual act - thinking about the sexual act, the telling about the sexual act, after the sexual act, is so much more important than the actual sexual act - just in time. It's like of the whole sexual act, you probably spend 95% of the time thinking about it, talking about it afterwards. The actually sexual act, especially when you're 17, is minutes.

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.

The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

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.

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

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.

9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.

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.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

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

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.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

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

Airbnb has proven that hospitality, generosity, and the simple act of trust between strangers can go a long way.

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.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

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.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

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

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.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances.

Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing... But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

I am a simple man who knows how to act and wants to work hard.

According to the Bible, the marriage act is more than a physical act. It is an act of sharing. It is an act of communion. It is an act of total self-giving wherein the husband gives himself completely to the wife, and the wife gives herself to the husband in such a way that the two actually become one flesh.

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.

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

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.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.