Simple Action Quotes

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

… with the stroke of a pen.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

I think of three things, and that's it. Just keep it short and take it outside and swing it left.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap