Top 1200 Simple Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there's fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.

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.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I am a simple person; I come from a very simple home. We believe in enjoying life and what we have.

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

The very name Jerusalem means City of Peace. Violently evicting families from their homes in which generations have lived is not an act of peace. A show of strong force during prayer is not an act of peace. Destroying holy sites is not an act of peace.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

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.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

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.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

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.

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

I am a simple girl from a simple background, and I think fans have appreciated my authenticity. What you see is definitely what you get with me.