17 Ways to Just Be Nice“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ―Aesop1. Be sincere.2. Be altruistic.3. Practice patience.4. Inquire and engage.5. Keep your promises.6. Offer help to others.7. Acknowledge others.8. Control your behavior.9. Be situationally aware.10. Be polite and courteous.11. Use considerate manners.12. Greet people with a smile. 13. Practice random acts of kindness.14. Show respect for yourself and others.15. Be complimentary and look for positives.16. Walk in another’s shoes to understand their needs.17. Share of yourself without expecting anything in return.

“Investors were able to see past a number of headlines, including inflated energy prices, hurricanes, terrorist bombings, and social unrest, to help equity markets turn in a year of strong performance. In local currency terms, all developed world countries landed in positive territory for 2005.”

“(In) the Arizona game, I felt like I was back to being unstoppable. I didn't care who you are or what position you played, I was going to get the best of the matchup. ... I just hope it's not any different when I come back on Sunday.”

“Five years ago, the strategy was to pick the top 10 stocks you like and swing for the fence. But do it in a way that if you were wrong you didn't lose your shirt (meaning you have short positions to protect you)...that's not what it looks like now.”

“We do know that there's a lot of season left. But if you keep saying that there's a lot of games left, before you know it, you're not going to be in good position. So it kind of is an urgency. We do need to win two out of three and hopefully even sweep.”

“Any time our defense can get us a pick and put us in good field position, we have to take advantage of our opportunities. We did it on that day. My boy Ty had a bad day. Anthony Henry played his butt off.”

“One of the motivations for doing this was to have a positive effect in getting the kind of people we want to have as customers downtown, in coming here. It's hard to measure that and to know if the tourists who arrived came because of the Art Market, but we do see people walking around with the brochures.”

“There was a lot of sensing that there are false positives and this could be one. But we couldn't kind of bet on that and say, 'Ah, gee, we guessed wrong.' We went with what we thought were the proper procedures and then backed off of that, when we found out where we are right now.”

“The difference was the size of the squad; we had a squad of around 18 players and if any were missing you had to switch players from different positions. That doesn't happen here now. The team I played in and this team were similar in some ways but we didn't sustain it.”

“She had more opportunities to score, but she got her team involved more. She wasn't afraid to pass and open up shots. She wasn't trying to hog the ball and that's a leader. Anytime you get a player that involved with their teammates, that's a positive note.”