Bruce Van Horn Quotes

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

If you have time to watch TV, you have time to work on your dreams and change your life

The hardest part of doing anything new is finding the courage to decide to at least try.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.” Helen Keller

The secret to always being in the right place at the right time is knowing that you always are.” Mike Dooley

Instead of saying "I can’t do that," I want you to start saying "I can’t do that, yet!

It is a gift from God. It is breathed into you and, once you receive it, you feel both peace and excitement.

Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big “why” for your life.

their domestication which has taught them how imperfect they are.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle

The way we behave today is directly related to our belief in the future.

It’s not the load that breaks you. It’s the way you carry it.” C.S. Lewis

Thinking about doing it and deciding to do it does not get it done. Only the doing will work.

I believe one of the greatest gifts you can give to another person is being fully present with them.

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!

People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.

Bruce Horn: I thought that computers would be hugely flexible and we could be able to do everything and it would be the most mind-blowing experience ever. And instead we froze all of our thinking. We froze all the software and made it kind of industrial and mass-marketed. Computing went in the wrong direction: Computing went to the direction of commercialism and cookie-cutter. Jaron Lanier: My whole field has created shit. And it’s like we’ve thrust all of humanity into this endless life of tedium, and it’s not how it was supposed to be. The way we’ve designed the tools requires that people comply totally with an infinite number of arbitrary actions. We really have turned humanity into lab rats that are trained to run mazes. I really think on just the most fundamental level we are approaching digital technology in the wrong way. Andy van Dam: Ask yourself, what have we got today? We’ve got Microsoft Word and we’ve got PowerPoint and we’ve got Illustrator and we’ve got Photoshop. There’s more functionality and, for my taste, an easier-to-understand user interface than what we had before. But they don’t work together. They don’t play nice together. And most of the time, what you’ve got is an import/export capability, based on bitmaps: the lowest common denominator—dead bits, in effect. What I’m still looking for is a reintegration of these various components so that we can go back to the future and have that broad vision at our fingertips. I don’t see how we are going to get there, frankly. Live bits—where everything interoperates—we’ve lost that. Bruce Horn: We’re waiting for the right thing to happen to have the same type of mind-blowing experience that we were able to show the Apple people at PARC. There’s some work being done, but it’s very tough. And, yeah, I feel somewhat responsible. On the other hand, if somebody like Alan Kay couldn’t make it happen, how can I make it happen?

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard

People cannot sustain behavior that is inconsistent with their beliefs.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” Melody Beattie

The seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.” Andy Andrews

We buy lottery tickets thinking that money will solve all of our problems.

the only thing that was really missing from my life was the realization that nothing was really missing from my life.

The miracle is you!

Peace comes the moment we let go of our story about how the world should be and find the truth of what is.

Gratitude is the Antidote

We get stuck in our short-sightedness.

Worry, stress, fear, and anxiety are a poison to our souls. The antidote for that poison is gratitude!

There is a difference, a profound difference, between having a plan and having a purpose.

If we do not know why we are doing something, it is easy to give up on the plan.

I believe that there is a purpose for everything.

Love is the energy that creates this universe and holds it together.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful,

If what has happened makes us happy, we call it “good.” If it causes pain, we call it “bad.

Worry tells you that life is not perfect, you are not perfect, and that what is about to happen is “bad.

A house built on a strong foundation can weather many storms!

Do not listen to its voice. Worry is a liar.

It does no good to bury your head in the sand, metaphorically, and ignore it.

What if you woke up tomorrow with only those things you gave thanks for today?

Just like a movie, our lives are simply a series of individual moments, snapshots in time.

All that truly exists, after all, is today.

If you are happy and excited about something, everyone around you can tell simply by looking at you.

When you are sad, angry, stressed, or worried, you can move to a different mental state by changing your physical state.

The faster you can get moving, get busy taking the actions that can ease your pain, the better off you will be.

Wherever you are, be all there!” Jim Elliot

We spend far too much time sleep-walking through our lives.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom

Worry, stress, anger, and other negative emotions cause the body to contract.

You see, you can change your mental state, by changing your physical state.

By observing a person’s physical state, you can guess with a high level of accuracy what that person’s mental state is.

WARNING: Exercise has been known to cause health and happiness!

Endorphins help us feel less pain and better tolerate stress!

Set yourself free! Get out of your self-imposed prison cell and out into nature.

I do some of my best thinking and problem solving while out for a walk or run.

What happens in the mind has a direct impact on what happens in the body.

If being hard on yourself was going to work, it would have worked by now.” Jamie Smart

We cannot create the life of our dreams by keeping all of our thoughts in the future.

Worry does not fix anything in the future; it only weakens your ability to live today.

I go out to still my mind and simply observe whatever I encounter along the way.

That force is worry. It is the voice I talked about, the voice that loves darkness and isolation.

Do the work others aren't willing to do, and you'll get the things others will never have.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Okay, you got through that breath, Bruce, and you didn’t die. Let’s take one more just like it.” But, now, I added two simple words to the end of it: THANK YOU!

I keep a gratitude journal.

I heard that it is not happy people who are grateful; it is grateful people who are happy.

I was not looking for new things to acquire, I was looking for things that I already had.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.

Learning to live in this moment, accepting the truth of what is, recognizing that I have all I really need, and being thankful for everything I have above and beyond my needs, has fertilized the soil of my soul to the point where worry and fear cannot take root.

Be intentional in every aspect of your life. Happen to your life instead of letting life happen to you!

90% of "Can't Do It" is really "Don't Want To" or "I'm Afraid.